570 new cases of HIV / AIDS infection reported in Georgia in 2018

570 new cases of HIV / AIDS infection reported in Georgia in 2018, - the Center for Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology said on November 7.

To compare, 540 new cases of the infection were revealed in the same time period of the last year.

The Center reports that as of September 30, 4468 patients with HIV/AIDS, including 48 children, are being treated in Georgia.

“A total of 7 332 HIV/AIDS infected persons have been registered in the Center for Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology, including 5486 male and 1846 female patients. The majority of patients are from 29-39 years old. 1495 patients died from the infection,” the Center noted.

Data published by the centre show that: 40.2% (2950) of infected patients are drug addicts; 46.2% (3388) - were infected as a result of heterosexual contact; 40.4 per cent of infected patients are drug addicts; 11.0 % (804) – male patients – as a result of sexual contact with male partners; 1.4 % (104) – were infected through vertical transmission; 0.5 % (36) – are blood recipients’ 0.7 % (49)– through unknown routes of transmission.