Abstract
Despite advances, HIV/AIDS remains one of the world’s most significant health and socio-economicproblems. To highlight the status situation of the HIV/AIDS in Iraq for the last ten years (2010-2019).Aretrospective study of available data on new HIV cases records covering the period from 2010 to 2019. Thisstudy was conducted in Iraq from July 2018 to December 2019. We collected these data from HIV/AIDSCenter in Baghdad. All the cases are diagnosed through case history, clinical examination and laboratoryinvestigations. The cumulative annual number of new HIV cases covering the period from 2010 to 2019 was539 cases. The trend of annual number of the cases increased with time (2010-2019). All cases are adults.The majority of new HIV cases are males (83.5%) and alive (90.2%). Sexual activity contributed the mainmode of HIV transmission (74.6%) especially heterosexuals.
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