In a medical gathering in the Northern Province of Guilan, on the World AIDS Day, it was revealed that the age of contracting AIDS has dropped to 16 and that the number of women suffering from this disease is greater than men.
Hossein Esmailpoor, governor of Some’esara said: AIDS had 33 per cent increase over the past ten years in Iran with the age of contracting it dropping to 16.
He added: Unfortunately, the number of women contracting AIDS has increased ten folds over the past decade.
(State-run Mehr news agency, December 10, 2015)