ARMENIA RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL GRANT TO FIGHT AIDS
ArmInfo News Agency
Sept 30 2005
Yerevan, 30 September: Armenia has received a grant worth 4m dollars
to fight HIV/AIDS within the framework of the project of the Global
Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The recipient of the
grant is the World Vision office in Armenia.
The grant will be used to implement the second stage of the national
programme to combat AIDS, a source in the World Vision office in
Yerevan said. In 2003-2005, the fund allocated 3.2m dollars to
implement the first stage of the project. An official ceremony to
sign the document on the allocation of the grant is scheduled for 5
October this year.
According to the republican HIV/AIDS centre, by 1 September 356
HIV-positive cases had been registered in Armenia and 92 people had
been diagnosed as having AIDS. A total of 70 people have died since
the first HIV/AIDS infected Armenian patient was registered. However,
specialists of the centre say that official figures cannot reflect
the real situation in the country, as the actual figures are 10 times
higher. Specialists of the centre believe that over 3,000 people are
HIV-positive in Armenia.