HIV/AIDS IN LEBANON Salim M. Adib, MD,DrPH

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HIV/AIDS IN LEBANONSalim M. Adib, MD,DrPH

• NATIONAL AIDS CONTROL PROGRAM
• As of June 2004

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HISTORY

• Early cases in 1981-82
• hemophiliacs, returning homosexuals
• AIDS control program started 1984
• First national consensus 1995
• Drugs available through MOPH clinics 2003
• Second national consensus 2003

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STATISTICS
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POTENTIAL TRANSMISSION N 650 CASES ()
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DYNAMICS OF THE EPIDEMIC

• First wave hemophiliacs, homosexuals
• No IV transmission of importance
• After 1990 heterosexual, transplacental leading
  to marriage license in 1994
• Epidemic under controlalmost low endemic

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