Local HIV/AIDS info

Located in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan is home to 5.2 million people. Estimated adult HIV prevalence rate (aged 15-49), 2009 is 0.3 %. There is an estimated 9,800 people (all ages) living with HIV (2009). There is no sexual education in the schools. Drug injection is the main route of transmission (the pass way from Afghanistan), but an increase of sexual transmission is being recorded among young people. There were several cases of medical infection (children were infected in the hospital). Most of the HIV positive people now are Intravenous drug users, mostly in the South of the country.