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Speed ​​in Russia. the first place is occupied by the homeland of Yeltsin, then St. Petersburg. symbolically. Percentage of people infected with HIV in Russia and European countries. Statistics in different risk groups

The immunodeficiency virus was first identified by scientists in 1983. It was then that the etiological cause of the development of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was established. However, the attention of specialists is still riveted to such a dangerous disease as HIV. Statistics say that it is constantly becoming more common. And the saddest thing is that in modern medicine there are no effective methods of treating pathology.

Basic statistics of HIV-infected people

The disease is constantly progressing and spreading among the population. This is confirmed officially by the statistics of the incidence of HIV and AIDS. According to the latest data from scientists, today the number of people infected with HIV reaches 40 million people. Of these, 37.5% caught the infection in the last 2 years, which is about 15 million.

At the same time, the pathology is constantly progressing, new strains of the pathogen appear that have arisen as a result of modification. This greatly complicates the process of treating patients.

Infection with a retrovirus occurs more often through sexual contact or through the use of non-sterile needles, which is often observed among drug addicts. The number of HIV-infected people is constantly increasing, and in order to slow the progression of the disease, experts strongly recommend periodically testing for AIDS. Early detection allows the appointment of a full-fledged antiretroviral therapy. According to statistics, only 9.5 million people with HIV (AIDS) receive quality treatment, less than a quarter of the total number of carriers.

HIV (AIDS) statistics in Russia

In the Russian Federation, the issue of immunodeficiency is discussed especially sharply twice a year - on the Day of the fight against this disease (December 1) and at the beginning of May, when the Day of Sorrow for those who died as a result of retrovirus infection is announced.

The statistics of HIV-infected people in Russia is constantly changing, and not for the better. In recent years, the number of infected has increased significantly and now reaches 250 thousand people. Experts say the problem is getting bigger. To date, the infection is mainly transmitted sexually and parenterally.

The statistics of AIDS patients in Russia confirms that the bulk of those infected are young people aged 19 to 29 years. If we take into account injection drug addicts, 78% of those seeking medical help were diagnosed with the immunodeficiency virus.

During sexual intercourse without condoms, a considerable number of patients also become infected. It is difficult to determine exactly how many people with HIV received the pathogen in this way. However, the statistics of HIV infection in Russia states that more than half of those infected through sexual contact are women. This is due to anatomical features. Women tend to have more intimate contact with body fluids, particularly semen. It contains a high concentration of retrovirus, which is able to enter the body through microcracks in the vaginal mucosa, which are formed during sexual intercourse.

Less common is the way the infection is transmitted from mother to baby. HIV transmission statistics show that over the entire period of the disease, more than 6 thousand cases of the birth of infected babies were registered. The mothers of the babies were women of childbearing age.

As for the male half of the population, according to statistics, about 2% of the stronger sex is infected with AIDS in Russia. The age of patients is in the range of 23-40 years. Among them, infection occurred in the following ways:

  • as a result of the use of narcotic drugs - 53%;
  • homosexual relationships - 1.5%;
  • with unprotected intercourse - 43%;
  • boys who received the infection in the womb or during childbirth from the mother - 2.5%.

Why is HIV spreading so fast? Statistics confirm that the vast majority of those infected received their "dose" of the retrovirus through a syringe. In Russia, more than half of drug addicts inject potent substances, which is a huge risk, because almost always syringes are used multiple times and for several people.

Additionally, the progression of AIDS can be explained by the lack of a clear program to combat retroviral infection. At the very beginning, when AIDS began to spread only on the territory of the Russian Federation, statistics showed a sharp jump - an increase in the number of cases. For several years, international associations for the fight against immunodeficiency have allocated a certain amount, which was used to administer antiretroviral therapy to patients. When Russia was recognized as a high-income country, this assistance was withheld, and the funds allocated from the state budget became insufficient to provide quality therapy to patients.

How many people are HIV-infected in specific regions of Russia?

The situation with the spread of immunodeficiency leaves much to be desired, however, the uniformity of the disease is somewhat diverse - in the Russian Federation, some regions require more attention from doctors, while in others, the rate of transmission of a dangerous disease does not cause concern. According to experts, the saddest situation is observed in the Irkutsk region. Here, retrovirus infection reaches 1.5% of the total population.

How many people are ill with HIV (AIDS) and how does the infection occur? More than 75% of patients in this region are infected as a result of unprotected intercourse, and a certain percentage falls on homosexual relationships. The remaining 25% experience pathology while injecting drugs, a small number are children born to HIV-positive mothers.

Also, the leaders in the progression of infection with immunodeficiency include Sverdlovsk, Kemerovo region, Perm, Khanty-Mansiysk district. No more rosy statistics of HIV infection in Russia emerges in the following regions:

  • Altaic;
  • Tomsk;
  • Kurgan;
  • Novosibirsk;
  • Samara;
  • Tyumensky;
  • Ulyanovsk;
  • Tverskaya;
  • Omsk;
  • Murmansk;
  • Orenburg;
  • Chelyabinsk;
  • Ivanovsky;
  • Leningradsky.

How many AIDS patients in the capital of the country - can be answered more precisely. HIV statistics in Moscow at the beginning of the 21st century did not cause much concern among doctors, but this picture quickly changed in the opposite direction. In recent years, the retrovirus began to spread among the residents of the capital by leaps and bounds. In 2016, more than 10 thousand infected people were registered. At the same time, half of them received a retrovirus during unprotected sex. 23% of those infected in this way became ill as a result of homosexual intercourse. HIV (AIDS) statistics for Russian regions remains unfavorable and requires the adoption of certain measures to reduce the spread of the disease.

The situation in the world: how fast is AIDS spreading?

How many AIDS patients are on the whole planet, which countries are one step away from the development of the epidemic? The number of infected in different states is different. The most deplorable situation is observed in Africa, or rather, in the South side. The inhabitants of these regions make up only 10% of the total population of the planet. At the same time, out of the total number of HIV-infected people (about 40 million), 25 million fall on this continent. These numbers are shocking.

The most unfavorable statistics of people infected with HIV (AIDS) is observed in the following countries of the world:

  • South Africa - more than 5 million;
  • India - 6.5 million;
  • Ethiopia - more than 4 million infected;
  • Nigeria - 3.6 million;
  • Mozambique, almost 2 million;
  • Kenya, Zimbabwe - 1.7 million infected each;
  • USA - 1.3 million;
  • China and Russia - about 1 million carriers of the retrovirus.

If we take into account the European continent, then about half of all infected people are residents of Ukraine and Russia. The main route of transmission of the virus in these countries is parenteral.

HIV infection by country raises fears for the future of mankind, analyzing the statistics, it can be argued that mass spread occurs in underdeveloped regions.

According to statistics, in countries infected with AIDS, the leading route of transmission is sexual and parenteral. The danger of the disease also lies in the fact that most patients do not want to believe in infection and refuse antiretroviral therapy. It can take more than 10 years from infection to the stage of AIDS, but this figure depends on the immune defense. In the absence of high-quality treatment, the disease develops much faster and leads to irreversible consequences.

Over the entire period of fame of immunodeficiency, more than 24 million patients died from it. At the same time, patients who received timely therapy were able to live fully for decades, no different from healthy people.

It is difficult to say exactly how many people are infected with HIV (AIDS), since the pathology is constantly spreading. However, scientists do not lose hope of finding an effective drug and finally defeating the retrovirus.

Ten regions of Russia are in critical condition in terms of HIV prevalence. This was stated by the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova. The sad list is headed by the Sverdlovsk and Kemerovo regions.

“HIV is spread very unevenly across the country,” the head of the Ministry of Health noted. “The prevalence is significantly higher, several times higher, in those regions through which drug trafficking routes pass. Therefore, there are 10 critical regions out of 85. In the first place is the Sverdlovsk region, Yekaterinburg, which got (in connection with this) to the press," said Skvortsova.

According to the minister, "57% of all sources of HIV infection are injections, usually among heroin addicts." As for such a traditional risk group as homosexuals, this trend is less pronounced in Russia.

“40% of cases of sexually transmitted infections relate to heterosexual couples,” Skvortsova said, stressing that the increase in the number of infections is due to well-off women who have picked up the virus from their own husband.

According to the Federal Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS, at the end of last year the list of the most HIV-affected regions was as follows: areas.

During the year, anonymous testing was conducted in problem regions, which was passed by 23.5 thousand young people under 30 years old. Among them, 2.3% of HIV-infected people were identified.

In early November, the Ministry of Health of Yekaterinburg announced that every 50th inhabitant of the city had AIDS.

"Our infection rate is 1,826 people per hundred thousand, which is 1.8% of the city's population, 26,693 thousand infected," Tatyana Savinova, deputy head of the Yekaterinburg city health department, said. "And these are only known cases, the real incidence is even higher," she stressed.

But this situation in Yekaterinburg has been developing for decades, so doctors do not make announcements about the beginning of the epidemic, the city health department emphasized.

According to the criteria of WHO and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV, more than 1% of those infected means that the infection is firmly rooted in the population and its spread is practically independent of risk groups.

Meanwhile, the Federal Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS believes that Russia is now on the verge of transition to the third, last stage of the HIV epidemic.

"An epidemic is a relative concept. There are three stages of HIV. Initial - the first cases are imported from abroad. The second is concentrated, risk groups are affected. We now have 10% of men who have sex with men and 20% of drug addicts are infected. And when more than 1% of pregnant women are infected, then it is generalized. Here we are now at the stage of transition from the second to the third, "Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the center, academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, told the L!fe portal.

TASS-DOSIER. From May 15 to May 21, 2017, the All-Russian Action "Stop HIV/AIDS" will be held in Russia for the third time. It is organized by the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives (the President of the Foundation is the wife of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Svetlana Medvedeva). The action is supported by the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Communications of Russia, Rosmolodezh, Rospotrebnadzor, as well as the Union of Rectors of Russia, leading state universities of the Russian Federation and the Russian Orthodox Church.

It is dedicated to the World AIDS Day of Remembrance, which is held annually on the third Sunday of May. Its goal is to draw attention to this problem in Russia, to raise awareness of the population, especially young people, about the disease.

Campaign "Stop HIV/AIDS"

The all-Russian action "Stop HIV/AIDS" began to be held in Russia in 2016. The key event of the first action, which took place in May, was an open student forum. The second action was timed to the World AIDS Day (December 1) and took place at the end of November. It started at the II All-Russian Forum for specialists in the prevention and treatment of the disease (November 28).

As part of the action, an open lesson "Knowledge - Responsibility - Health" was held in senior classes of secondary schools, at which a film was shown on topical issues of combating HIV infection.

HIV/AIDS disease

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks the immune system and weakens the body's defenses against a wide range of infections and diseases, including some types of cancer. HIV-infected people gradually develop immunodeficiency.

The last stage of the disease that develops when infected with the human immunodeficiency virus is AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), when the human body loses the ability to defend itself against infections and tumors. In different people, AIDS can develop 2-15 years after HIV infection.

There is no cure for HIV infection. However, with antiretroviral treatment, the virus can be controlled and transmission prevented. This facilitates and prolongs the life of those infected with the infection.

Statistics for Russia

The epidemiological situation of HIV infection in Russia (the first case was detected in 1987) is unfavorable, cases of the disease have been identified in all regions of the Russian Federation.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, as of December 31, 2016, since 1987, 1 million 114 thousand 815 cases of HIV infection have been registered among citizens of the Russian Federation, of which 243 thousand 863 people have died. Thus, at the beginning of 2017, 870,952 Russians were living with HIV/AIDS in Russia, which is 0.59% of the total population of the country (146,804,372). As of December 31, 2016, the prevalence of HIV was 594.3 people with an established diagnosis per 100,000 of the country's population.

The number of newly diagnosed HIV infections in the country continues to rise. According to Rospotrebnadzor, in 2011-2016. the annual growth averaged 10%. In 2016, the territorial centers for the prevention and control of AIDS registered 103,438 new cases of HIV infection (excluding those identified anonymously and foreign citizens) - 5.3% more than in 2015 (95,475).

High prevalence of HIV is observed in the 30 largest subjects of the Russian Federation, where 45.3% of the country's population lives. The most unfavorable regions, where the number of people living with HIV exceeds 1 thousand people per 100 thousand population, are Sverdlovsk (1648 per 100 thousand population), Irkutsk (1636), Kemerovo (1583), Samara (1477), Orenburg (1217) regions, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (1202), Leningrad (1147), Tyumen (1085), Chelyabinsk (1079) and Novosibirsk (1022) regions.

A high level of HIV infection in the Russian Federation is observed in the age group from 30 to 39 years. Among young people (15-20 years old), more than 1.1 thousand people with HIV infection are registered annually. Cases of infection of children during breastfeeding continue to be detected: in 2014, 41 children were infected, in 2015 - 47 children, in 2016 - 59.

In 2016, 675,403 patients (77.5% of all those living with a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS) were registered at the dispensary in specialized medical organizations. Of these, 285,920 patients received antiretroviral therapy (42.3% of those registered).

HIV/AIDS in the world

Some scientists believe that HIV was transmitted from monkeys to humans as early as the 1920s. The first victim of this disease may have been a man who died in 1959 in the Congo. This conclusion was reached by doctors who later analyzed his medical history.

For the first time, the symptoms of the disease characteristic of HIV/AIDS were described in 1981 during examinations of several men of non-traditional sexual orientation in clinics in Los Angeles and New York. In 1983, researchers from the US and France described a virus capable of causing HIV/AIDS. Since 1985, blood tests for HIV have been available in clinical laboratories.

According to the World Health Organization, at the end of 2015, there were from 34 to 39.8 million (36.7 million on average) HIV-infected people in the world. Sub-Saharan Africa is the most affected region, with an estimated 25.6 million people living with HIV in 2015 (about two-thirds of those infected). More than 35 million people have become victims of HIV/AIDS worldwide. In 2015 alone, approximately 1.1 million people died. As of June 2016, 18.2 million patients had access to antiretroviral treatment, including 910,000 children.

About the HIV epidemic. The virus was found in 1.8 percent of citizens, that is, 27 thousand people. In general, the entire Sverdlovsk region is in first place in terms of the number of HIV-infected people in Russia. In general, an outbreak of infection was recorded in 10 regions. The number of infected people in the country has exceeded one million. And about half do not know about their diagnosis. Whether a large-scale HIV epidemic threatens Russia, Lenta.ru found out.

What's happening?

The Sverdlovsk region ranked first in the number of HIV-infected people in Russia. In the capital of the region - Yekaterinburg - every fiftieth is ill. This was announced at a press conference in TASS by the First Deputy Head of the Health Department of Yekaterinburg Tatyana Savinova. In total, 26,693 cases of HIV infection have been registered in the city. That is, almost 2 percent of citizens are infected. In the Zheleznodorozhny district of the city, there are already more than 2 percent of those infected. About 52 percent were infected through drug use, through intravenous injections, 46 percent - through sexual contact. Now the incidence is growing precisely due to the sexual route of infection.

According to the criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO), if the virus is detected in more than 1 percent of the population in the region (especially in pregnant women), this means that the stage of a “generalized” epidemic has begun. That is, the disease goes beyond the risk groups where it has been circulating for a long time. In the health department of Yekaterinburg, no one specifically announced the HIV epidemic in the city. According to Savinova, the generalized stage of the spread of HIV did not begin yesterday, and it hardly makes sense to talk about an epidemic, since this is not a seasonal disease, like the flu.

Geography of HIV

According to Rospotrebnadzor, the epidemiological threshold of 1 percent has been exceeded in the Kemerovo, Ulyanovsk, Irkutsk, Tyumen regions, the Perm Territory, the Leningrad, Chelyabinsk and Orenburg regions, the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, the Tomsk Region, the Altai Territory, Novosibirsk, Murmansk, Omsk, Ivanovo, Tver and Kurgan regions. The leaders are Samara and the already mentioned Sverdlovsk regions. More than 2 percent of pregnant women are infected here.

In Russia as a whole, the number of HIV-infected people has exceeded one million. Experts believe that about 500-800 thousand more Russians are unaware of their illness, since they do not consider themselves to be at risk and have never been tested.

AIDS is closer

Previously, HIV in Russia was considered the lot of marginals - drug addicts, prostitutes, homosexuals. But a generalized epidemic means that now everyone can get infected. This is not the flu yet - nevertheless, HIV is not transmitted by airborne droplets, but in order to be guaranteed to avoid infection, it is no longer enough just to avoid communicating with risk groups. Many do not know whether their partner has been tested for HIV infection or not, whether he could have been infected in the past. Meanwhile, every fortieth man aged 30-35 is infected with HIV. Depending on the region, every twentieth man aged 21-40 is infected. The chance of infection is very high.

Doctors recommend to be more careful not only in choosing partners, but also when seeking medical help. According to the Federal Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS (over the past five years), there is reliable information on more than 10 cases of nosocomial infection. The department declined to name the regions, "because these incidents are possible everywhere." The fact is that in order to save money, hospitals again practice the repeated use of syringes (even disposable syringes can be re-injected) and other medical equipment that requires sterilization before use. The identified cases are mainly related to children, since "it is easier for them to establish the chain of infection." However, experts do not exclude that adults could also become infected in the same way.

What to expect?

According to the Center for Fighting AIDS, the number of infected Russians is increasing at a rate of up to 10 percent per year. Up to 270 cases are registered per day. Every day 50-60 people die. The percentage of infected people in our country is three times higher than in the EU countries. Twice - than in France, and ten times - than in Germany.

In October 2015, Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova said that by 2020 the HIV epidemic in Russia could get out of control if treatment coverage is not increased. The UN has adopted recommendations to combat the epidemic. Experts believe that it is possible to stop the growth of the incidence using the formula "90-90-90". That is, it is necessary that 90 percent of patients know about their diagnosis and 90 percent of them receive the necessary treatment. Then 90 percent of HIV-infected people will not be contagious to others.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, only 19 percent of Russians were tested last year. Approximately 30 percent of patients receive the necessary medicines. According to Academician Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the AIDS Center, in order to implement the international strategy, the state must spend at least 100 billion rubles a year. In 2017, 18 billion rubles are allocated for the fight against HIV - more than five times less.

After reporting on the epidemic in Yekaterinburg, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered another 2.28 billion rubles to be allocated from the budget for the purchase of medicines for citizens infected with HIV and hepatitis B and C.

Identification or abstinence?

Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman stressed that the situation in the city is typical for the whole of Russia. “We have a very high detection rate,” he is quoted as saying. - That is, we are doing this purposefully. We have strong doctors, we have very strong programs for detection. In Yekaterinburg, 23 percent of the population was examined. Meanwhile, in Russia - no higher than 15. That is, we have one and a half times more people examined. And if they conduct examinations at this level in Novosibirsk, Saratov, Samara, Tver, then, believe me, the situation there will shoot out even differently.”

Yevgeny Voronin, chief freelance specialist in the problems of diagnosing and treating HIV infection of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, says that there are only two countries in the world in which the incidence of HIV is growing - Ukraine and Russia.

According to him, the Ministry of Health is confident that "raising public awareness, increasing testing and maximum coverage of therapy can radically turn the tide." The department hopes that in two years the country will record a sharp decrease in new infections.

“There are positive examples,” Voronin stressed. - In Tatarstan, which is one of the twenty regions at risk of HIV, testing covered about 30 percent of the population, more than 60 percent received therapy. And there they really began to decline. The concept consists of three parts. The first is abstinence before marriage and marriage no earlier than 19 years old, when a person accumulates some kind of life experience, one of the authors of the report, demographer Igor Beloborodov, told Lente.ru. - The second is loyalty. Through social advertising, instant messengers, speeches by politicians, the public was given a signal: do not cheat in marriage. And only a third part, and far from being the most important, is condoms. If you are crazy and prostitute, use drugs, then at least protect yourself. Our liberal apologists took only the last part of this entire three-stage system. But there have already been examples of the disastrous consequences of such selectivity. Take two African countries - Uganda and neighboring Botswana. The first diligently used all three methods of prevention. As a result, AIDS incidence in Uganda fell by a factor of three between 1990 and 2011. And in Botswana it has grown eightfold.”

Statistics on HIV incidence and AIDS mortality vary widely across countries and continents. The indicators are influenced by the standard of living of the population, economic development, health and social security, youth policy and promotion of a healthy lifestyle. It would seem that backward third world countries are among the leaders in immunodeficiency. However, HIV in the Russian Federation is spreading at a rate that brings Russia to third place in the world ranking in terms of the rate of increase in incidence, behind only South Africa and Nigeria.

HIV statistics in Russia change from year to year for the worse. Since 1987, when they first started talking about a terrible diagnosis, and to the present, the number of cases has been increasing, and mortality has been increasing. The percentages of new cases of immunodeficiency and population bring the Russian Federation to the leading positions in the lists of the countries of the former USSR and the entire planet. Moreover, the main increase in deplorable statistics does not occur in the 90s, neither the change of power, nor the change in the way of thinking, nor the improvement in the quality of life affect - an increase in the rate of HIV spread is recorded every year. The mortality index (number of deaths per 1,000 people) has increased 10 times over the past ten years.

According to official data, there are about a million HIV patients in Russia, that is, approximately 0.7% of the country's inhabitants are infected with HIV. According to unofficial information from foreign agencies, the percentage in reality is exactly 2 times higher, and this indicates an epidemic of immunodeficiency in the Russian Federation.

In order not to cause panic and not take away the first place in AIDS from South Africa and Nigeria, in Russia the statistics are slightly corrected in the right direction. For example, a person with AIDS dies, but the cause of death is a secondary disease - heart failure or a malignant neoplasm, and the patient was not registered for immunodeficiency. This death is not reflected in HIV mortality. Also, the data on the total number of cases are not accurate enough - there is no mandatory procedure for testing for HIV. Thousands of people do not go to medical institutions for years and do not donate blood. Naturally, if they are infected, Rosstat and Rospotrebnadzor do not know about it. If a person is diagnosed with HIV, but does not undergo an examination and is not registered with an infectious disease specialist, then such a case is also not taken into account - the patients actually registered are taken into account. In Russia, most citizens need to be forced and persuaded to go to the hospital and get treated. Based on the above cases, the actual incidence of AIDS in the Russian Federation is clearly much higher.

Regions and cities leaders in the number of HIV infections

Russia is a large country in terms of territory and, accordingly, statistical data varies by region. Sverdlovsk, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Samara, Orenburg regions, Perm Territory, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug have become the most disadvantaged for HIV in recent years. In these regions, the highest rate of increase in the incidence and the highest percentage of HIV-infected people - more than 2% of the inhabitants are infected with a retrovirus, with a huge number of infected children and pregnant women (every 50th woman in labor is sick with immunodeficiency). Of the leading cities in terms of HIV, the geography remains identical to the regional one - Kemerovo, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk.

HIV statistics by age

HIV statistics by age in Russia has not changed for many years - the majority of infected people are young people from 20 to 39 years old, accounting for approximately 80% of registered patients. Another 10% are from 40 to 60 years old, 9% are from newborns to 19 years old. The latter category of patients is more vulnerable in terms of diagnosing immunodeficiency. An HIV diagnosis is accurately established in children from 0 years of age, infected in utero, during childbirth from a sick mother. The rest of the children, among whom the peak of injection drug addiction is recorded at the age of 13-17, are not tested for retrovirus and remain unaccounted for.

Reasons for Russia's leadership in HIV infection

The UN has called Russia the epicenter of the global epidemic of secondary immunodeficiency. Inaccurate and underestimated statistics of immunodeficiency in the Russian Federation exceeds the scale of the disaster in other countries. For example, in Germany, the increase in the incidence is three times less than in Russia. And there, HIV is a national problem that is being fought and funds are allocated from the state budget. The HIV epidemic in Russia is not considered something global and serious, given the lack of a state program to combat AIDS. By the way, in the United States, the state wrestling program appeared in the late 1980s.

There are two main reasons for Russia's leadership in infection with immunodeficiency:

  • lack of fight against the disease at the state level - correction of statistics, lack of mandatory HIV testing of citizens without exception, lack of funding - propaganda and youth policy aimed at a healthy lifestyle;
  • The epidemic of HIV and drug addiction coincide geographically, that is, the main route of infection in Russia is injecting drugs.

African countries, where at some time every second citizen was HIV-positive, were able to suppress the epidemic and began to fight the spread of infection. An economically and socially developed state should all the more recognize and accept the problem. Otherwise, according to experts, in the next 5 years Russia will come out on top in the world in terms of HIV, and the death rate from AIDS in the country will increase exponentially.