"Disturbing health report" on sex workers in Iran published.

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"Disturbing health report" on sex workers in Iran published. (Taz).

A report by Iran’s health ministry says that almost five percent of Iranian sex workers suffer HIV infection, Minoo Mohraz, head of the Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS said.

The “shocking report” unveils that the average age of female sex workers is about 38 years, Mohraz said, Iran’s ISNA news agency reported.

Iranian female sex workers are 18-56 years old, Mohraz said, adding 58 percent of women selling themselves are divorced. She said that only 44 percent of these women use condoms during sexual intercourse, while there are also those which do not, after they get paid extra money.

It is while some 68 percent of single female sex workers and 75 percent of divorced women selling themselves in Iran have never had an HIV test, Mohraz said.

“Two of every 14 street women in Tehran are infected with HIV,” Mohraz said, adding that the rising average marriage age is one of the reasons behind prostitution in Iran.


“We will witness the increase in the number of the AIDS patients if the problems regarding the marriage are not resolved,” she warned.

Over 12 million of Iranians aged 20 to 35 years are not married, Jalil Dorouzi, an official with Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) said last January.


Information about AIDS is hidden in Iran for mental and religious reasons. People are not informed about virus transmission, so the number of infected in the country has greatly increased. Read the full story here.

G.W.Bush "We care because we believe that to whom much is given, much is required,".

G.W.Bush "We care because we believe that to whom much is given, much is required,".(CO).George W. Bush opens new health clinic in Zambia. While former U.S. President George W. Bush faces some often harsh criticism as commander in chief from those who claim he led the nation into unpopular wars and additional criticism from opponents who claim he initiated failed economic policies, he has taken on a new role as an advocate for women's health in Africa. Both he and his wife Laura Bush have recently opened a women's health clinic in Kabwe, Zambia. President Bush was in Africa to promote cervical cancer detection and treatment programs for Zambian women, many of whom are living with HIV. "We care because we believe that to whom much is given, much is required," Bush says. "And those of us, who live in America, live in the most blessed nation ever and therefore when we see suffering, we ought to act." The former president has raised more than $85 million for cervical cancer programs, through his George W. Bush Center and other partner organizations. Bush says his goal is to build upon one of the great bipartisan achievements of his presidency. In 2003, Bush's AIDS initiative was initially funded $15 billion-worth of anti-retroviral drugs and treatment to extend the lives of millions of Africans with HIV and AIDS. Zambia currently has the second highest number of cervical cancer cases in the world. Many Zambian women infected with the disease are also living with HIV and have weakened immune systems. "But the saddest thing of all is to know a lady's life has been saved from AIDS but died from cervical cancer," Bush said. "And so starting in Zambia, the Bush Center, along with our partners, are going to put on a cervical cancer crusade to save lives." "He's a very nice person," Chanda says, who is the first patient at the clinic. Pronounced cancer-free by the clinicians there, Chanda says that "I thank him and I am wishing you [him] a happy life, a good life." Bush says he will continue to advocate for global health issues which for him, he says, are a labor of love.Hmmmm......"Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; the LORD delivers him in times of trouble. The LORD will protect him and preserve his life; he will bless him in the land and not surrender him to the desire of his foes. The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed and restore him from the bed of illness." ~ Psalm 41:1-3 (NIV).Read the full story here.

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