en Adherence of Islamic values and human immunodeficiency virus prevention ● International Health نامه به سردبیر Letter to Editor <p>.</p> <p></p> <div style="left: 378.189px; top: 302.36px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.06427);">The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is lentivirus</div> <div style="left: 378.189px; top: 326.36px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03097);">(subgroup of retrovirus) which causes HIV infection and</div> <div style="left: 378.189px; top: 350.36px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.09622);">it acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV</div> <div style="left: 378.189px; top: 374.36px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03385);">infection leads to low levels of CD4+T cells through number</div> <div style="left: 378.189px; top: 398.36px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.05226);">of mechanisms [1]. Our purpose is to review educative HIV</div> <div style="left: 378.189px; top: 422.36px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0307);">prevention and control as Millennium Development Goal</div> <div style="left: 378.189px; top: 446.36px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.995638);">(MDG) and WHO&#39;s operational goal. In 2000, when the United</div> <div style="left: 378.189px; top: 470.36px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.972724);">Nations Millennium Declaration was made, it was estimated that</div> <div style="left: 378.189px; top: 494.36px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02925);">36 million adults and 1.4 million children live with HIV with</div> <div style="left: 378.189px; top: 518.36px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03932);">regard to HIV/AIDS among other infectious diseases. Target</div> <div style="left: 378.189px; top: 542.36px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03691);">6 of MGD suggests: &quot;Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other</div> <p>diseases&quot;</p> <p></p> . immunodeficiency, prevention,values and human 543 544 http://jrh.gmu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1264-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Sayed Alireza Mirsane سید علیرضا میرصانع alireza.seyed70@gmail.com 100319475328460014822 100319475328460014822 No Department of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kashan University, Kashan, Iran Kashan University, Kashan Shima Shafagh شیما شفق alireza.seyed70@gmail.com 100319475328460014823 100319475328460014823 Yes Department of General Surgery, School of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Science, Kashan, Iran Kashan University of Medical Science