Created: 20 September 2022
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PRESS RELEASE

On September 21, 2022 at 10:00 am, specialists from the Almaty Regional Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS will hold an online round table with doctors from the central hospital of the Ili district.

Topic: "Prevention of HIV infection among young people."

Venue: conference hall No. 13 in the village of Utegen Batyr.

Participants: deputy directors for educational work of secondary schools in the Ili district.

Organizers: head of the preventive work department G. Zhakanova, epidemiologist A. Sultanova.

Speakerler:

- Nurbaeva Akbota Birzhanovna, obstetrician-gynecologist of the district hospital of the Ili district - "Harm and consequences of teenage pregnancy";

- Akhipov Meirbek Zulhaydarovich, narcologist of the district hospital of the Ili district - "Drug addiction among adolescents and smoking";

- Gulmira Amankasovna Zhakanova, head of the preventive work department of the Almaty Regional Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS - "Prevention of HIV infection among young people."

For 6 months of 2022, 175 new cases were registered in the region among citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the prevalence rate per 100 thousand of the population was 8.4, for the same period in 2021 - 152 cases (the indicator is 7.2), an increase of 23 cases. There is an increase in cases of HIV infection compared to the same period in 2021. in the following regions: Ili, Koksu on 5 lines, Panfilov, Talgar, Karasai Enbekshikazakh on 4 lines, Uighur, Zhambyl on 3 lines, Kerbulak on 2 lines, Karatal, Kegen on 1 line.

AOC AIDS Press Secretary

G.T. Shonabay,

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