YEREVAN. – Ever since 1988, a total of 1,634 cases of HIV were recorded in Armenia, 33 of which among those under the age of 18, but the actual number of the carriers is about 3,500 people.

World Vision Armenia HIV Prevention Program Coordinator Anush Sahakyan stated the aforementioned on Thursday.

“[But] two-thirds of the [HIV] carriers [in Armenia] do not know about the presence of the disease, since they are not examined,” Sahakyan added.

Ahead of the World HIV Day on Saturday, March 1, World Vision Armenia held several events, whose objective was to draw public attention to HIV/AIDS, and to encourage people to be tested for this disease.

“We held the events in [capital city] Yerevan and Gavar, where there is the most number of people that leave for seasonal work,” Anush Sahakyan noted.

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