Iraq+HIVAIDS+Information

=__﻿Iraq HIV/AIDS Information﻿__= []
 * Over the decades, educational and treatment initiatives have been slowed down by prevailing cultural values, economic hardships brought about by sanctions, and war.
 * HIV/AIDS arrived in Iraq in 1986 via contaminated blood
 * First victims during the Ba'athist regime relocated Iraqis infected to a segregated medical facility. Nobody from the outside was allowed to visit. Pations were like prisoners.
 * People were ignorant about the disease. Saddam Hussein believed that the disease could be spread communicably, and proposed that infected Iraqis shouuld be exterminated.