ARMENIAN HIV CASES REACH NEW HIGH
Medical authorities have registered a record-high number of HIV cases in Armenia this year and plan to step up preventive measures against the disease, officials said on Monday. According to Samvel Grigorian, head of the Armenian Health Ministry’s Center for the Prevention of AIDS, 118 persons have been diagnosed with the virus causing AIDS in 2008, raising to 656 the total number of HIV cases officially registered since 1988. Most of those cases have been identified in the past four years, said Grigorian. The real number of HIV carriers in the country is believed to be much larger. Grigorian’s center estimates it at approximately 2,300. It considers unsafe sex and increased drug use as the main reasons for the spread of the potentially deadly disease. Speaking at a news conference, officials and experts dealing with the problem said the latest HIV statistics underline the need to significantly boost public awareness of the disease which they believe still leaves much to be desired. “Our emphasis must be on educating our citizens and raising their awareness,” said Ara Babloyan, a former health minister chairing the Armenian parliament’s standing committee on healthcare. “That is impossible to do without involving the educational system,” said Hovannes Madoyan, chairman of the non-governmental organization Real World/Real People. Madoyan urged the government to introduce mandatory courses on sex education and HIV/AIDS avoidance in Armenian schools. According to Deputy Health Minister Tatul Hakobian, the Health Ministry has already come up with a relevant initiative and expects a positive response from Education Ministry. “The subject will definitely be included [in the school curricula,]” he said. “The Education Ministry has accepted the idea.”
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- 1824 The Nerssissian school opens in Tbilissi (Georgia) and continues to operate till 1924.
- 1827 Creation of an Armenian printing-house in Shooshee (Artsakh).
- 1827 Sultan Mahmud the Second expels about 12000 Armenian Catholics from Constantinople. Some 4000 die of exposure along the way and the remainder are banished to provinces of Asia Minor, which they reach in February 1828.
- 1876 The Turkish government orders the burning of the market of Van and destroys Armenian properties.
- 1894 Publication of the "Struggle" newspaper (Association of Armenian Worker-Revolutionaries).
- 1899 Death of Tigran Yerkat, publicist and public figure.
- 1903 Death of Manvel Qadjooni, historian, geographer, and philologist. He was born in 1823.
- 1903 Death of Manuel Katjooni (historian) in Constantinople. He was born in 1823.
- 1914 Battle of Sarighamish. Destruction of the Turkish Army, that was led by Enver Pasha.
- 1915 United States President Theodore Roosevelt states: The crowning outrage has been committed by the Turks on the Armenians. They have suffered atrocities so hideous that it is difficult to name them, such atrocities such as those inflicted upon conquered nations by the followers of Attila and Genghis Khan. It is dreadful that these things can be done and that this nation nevertheless remains neutral.
- 1917 The People's Commissariat of Nationalities of Soviet Russia creates the Commissariat of Armenian Affairs in Moscow. Varlam Avanesov is appointed commissar and Vahan Teryan (poet) is the deputy.
- 1920 The Revolutionary Council of Azerbaijan recognizes Gharabagh, Zangezur, and Nakhichevan to be parts of Armenia.
- 1921 Elections of the first Peasant District and Provincial Unions in Armenia.
- 1923 The Komitas State Conservatory of Music opens in Yerevan.
- 1929 Yerevan's Kanaker radio station starts its broadcasts.
- 1941 Colonel Simon Zakyan heads the new Armenian 89th Rifle Division.
- 1989 The reunification of Artsakh and Armenia is accepted during a joint session of the Parliaments of Armenia and Artsakh. This was followed by the adoption, by Artsakhs legislative body, of a motion to secede from Azerbaijan. The Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan rejected the decision as illegal and the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declare? it null and void.
- 1989 The Supreme Council of Mountainous Gharabagh (Artsakh) decides to rejoin Armenia in a joint session with the Armenian supreme Council.
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