Every day, 200 people in Russia infected with HIV

Russian specialists were recorded daily about 200 cases of HIV infection. The main sources of infection in our country are sex and heterosexual transmission of disease through drug use.

HIV infection

By the end of 2015 the number of infected HIV infection   in Russia could exceed a million. Since 1987, the Federal Centre for the Prevention and Control of AIDS was reported 864, 4 thousand. HIV-infected citizens of Russia and about 22, 4 ths. HIV-positive foreigners. Over the past four years, especially a lot of new registered cases of infection, there is a tendency of growth. For example, in 2011 there were 60 thousand, in 2012 - 70 thousand, in 2013 - 80 thousand, this year we expect even more, plus about 30 thousand infected people living in the Crimea.

"The order of 200 cases, we registered HIV infections daily, and infections may be more. I'm not kidding - it was a day. And somewhere in the 49% - are women, mostly young, from 25 to 35 years ", - said the head of the Federal Research and Methodological Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS Vadim Pokrovsky at a press conference at the central office of" Interfax ".

Academician also emphasized that Russia's major carriers HIV infection   They are not gay, as in many other countries, and drug addicts. In second place are sex between a man and a woman. The share of male homosexuals account for only 1 1 percent of infections.

Every year increases not only the number of cases, but the mortality rate among HIV-infected. In 2011, 18 thousand people died in 2012 - 20 thousand, in 2013 - 22 thousand. The total number of deaths in 1986 was about 170 thousand people. Die most people under the age of 35 years, which adversely affects the demographics of the country.

Approximately 0, 5 percent of the population are officially registered as HIV carriers. But as the disease is 10 years, asymptomatic, HIV-infected   Russians can be twice as much. The highest number of infected noted in Irkutsk, Samara and Sverdlovsk regions. (READ MORE)

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