Vadim Pokrovsky, the head of the federal AIDS center, told Reuters that the prevalence of the disease was on the verge of becoming common throughout the population, instead of concentrated primarily within a certain group.
Almost 20 percent of the country's drug users and nearly 10 percent of the country's gay people were HIV-positive, he said. Between 55 and 60 percent of cases are linked to drug use and around 40 percent to heterosexual sex. Gay sex accounted for only about 1.5 percent.
Russia registered its millionth HIV-positive patient - a 26-year-old woman in the south of the country — on Wednesday, said Pokrovsky. But he added the real number of HIV-positive Russians could be as high as 1.5 million, or 1 percent of the population, based on his and other expert estimates.
"The epidemic is gathering strength. Unfortunately the measures that have been taken have clearly not been enough," Pokrovsky said.He warned that Russia was "on the threshold" of moving from a concentrated epidemic, where HIV is highly prevalent in one subset of the population, to a generalized epidemic, where HIV rates among the general population are sufficient for sexual networking to drive new infections.
"We're in a transitional phase," he said. "In separate regions we can say there is already a generalized HIV epidemic."The Russian epidemic has been driven by very harsh drug laws and a lack of harm reduction and needle exchange programs, as well as repressive homosexuality laws, according to UNAIDS and the World Health Organization.
A report released by UNAIDS in 2014 called out Russia for its "appalling record" on HIV and drug policy. "The Russian Federation… continues to steadfastly deny the evidence on the effectiveness of harm reduction, and the rates of HIV infection among people who inject drugs in the country are among the highest in the world," it said.
A federal law banning "gay propaganda" has also hindered access to HIV prevention services among the LGBT community, according to activists.
Pokrovsky said 204,000 people had died of HIV in Russia since the first case was recorded in 1987. He expected the number of new cases in 2015 to be at least 93,000, up from just under 90,000 in 2014.
That, he said, would be the largest number of new cases since Russia began keeping data almost 30 years ago.
The escalation comes as Russia struggles financially, beset by low oil prices, Western sanctions and a falling ruble.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called last October for a series of urgent measures to respond to the growing epidemic. The government plans to spend 40 billion rubles ($475.20 million) on fighting HIV/AIDs in 2016. Pokrovsky said 100 billion rubles was needed.
Government data shows 24,000 HIV-positive people died in 2014, the last full year for which data is available. Of those, around 12,000 died as a direct result of AIDS. Pokrovsky said the real number who died from AIDS was likely to be higher.
He said he expected data for 2015 to show a 5-10 percent increase in the number of deaths.
104 comments:
Nawaa oo, hw many cum remain?
The only virus that has refuse to go
PEPSI ADDICT
Lol... My people use condom. Skin to skin is not always the best. Condom is cheap
OMG Russian Girls No go Area 🚫⚠✖❎
*DEW*
Wow
Hmmmmmm imagine Russia what rubbish.
Muslims are the cause of it.
#sad indeed
Subhanallah
Kolorun mafi arun buruku se wa. Aameen
congratulations to them
Its well wit their souls and I pray d Lord heal them inside out.
Wow
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Like serious
Nawaooo
Good gracious me
Jeez..that is a whole lot, Lord have mercy
Wow u can imagine
Won't travel to that country
Na wa o!
Chineke! How many ppl live there? That's to say all of them are HIV positive na? Na wa o
#It wiLL oNLy gET beTTer
#iT mUsT eNd iN prAise
Wonderment! The next time you have bf or gf from Russia, make sure you ask pertinent questions lol
Wow are d citizen not educated. Wow dis is alarming 4 real
noted
#she'sunique#
Observed, really serious, with all humility and honesty I have feelings for Linda Ikeji and would sincerely wish to meet her in person this year as part of my resolution.
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nawaa ohhh....
Don~ jazzycrush
Na wah ooooo. Thatz much... dee
omo see gobe!
omo see gobe!
Gosh
That's quite a number. God help us.
#LIB ADDICT#
In short Russia is now a war zone. No where to safe again Lord have mercy
My God.
Dis one concerned dos travellers. Obong Abasi is fully involved
Chimoo! I no go reach dere be dat?
...merited happiness
crazy, :v
Too bad
THIS IS SERIOUS. OMALICHA LI
Na waoo!
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How many come remain.... na wahhh oooo y'all take it easy na it's not a competition
What!!!!!!!
****eyez open****
Nigeria own reach 10 million
2016 award winning country... Let's go Linda
2016 award winning country... Let's go Linda
Over 3.3m people live with hiv/AIDS in nigeria- everybody don run comot?
America should extend a hand of help.
over 141 million people.
Hmmm...tot they said there was no homosexuality in Russia..
Should be snc it's a brutal country with loads of abuse
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginald
Nawa o. Linda observe!
Hmmmm dis is serious
Wow...more dan 1 million, guess that HIV country ooooh..girls take note
Too much for a country.
Wow too bad. And I wanted 2 get married to a Russian
And this same smug bastard will look down on Africa!!
God help them...
Whaoooo!! Na wa ooo
Hmm na wa 4 wire rd
So bad, pls Nigerian. Over there b careful ooo
So bad, pls Nigerian. Over there b careful ooo
Na wah oo...and russia won host world cup two years from now
distributing it to 1 and other
Dis is seriously dangerous. Linda take note!
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Na waoo! I be wan go there but I no go again ooooooo.
#next#
Woow
Hmmm more than 1M people ?...#Lindaconfirm
choi,,,,
@High Tower
hmmmm serious one oooh.
Enter your reply...ok na
Hmmmm na wa o
Linda ikeji should check a guy' called @kingtblakhoc on instagram ehn. hahahaha
Too bad!
Nawa ooo
Nawa ooo
First they have to stop this LGBT . And educate them about the virus. Sticking to one partner and those infected should take medication (ART) .
Tomorrow they will say it is gay disease. Don't wrap up your dicks o. Be rawing about and bashing the gays.
Good for them, they should continue with their act, congratulation to virus carrier
ðŸ˜ðŸ˜¡jeesus...one million kwa.dats plenty
Russia is out of bound to anyone looking for iranu
#*karlishah*
BEAUTIFUL9JADELTABABE.. Na wahh ohh so sad hmm anyway me am Justsayingmaownohh via ma LATEST TECNO F7.
@lindaikeji d lindus am still waiting ohh
Kant date a russia guy b dat ooo
#remitekosoko
OMG! Wahala deey oooooo
Enter your comment...Hmmmm..Odikwa Very Risky
Nah waoh.
Ewo!
Bringing it back home.
NACA needs to resume duty ASAP.
The number of HIV positive pateints in Nigeria is increasing daily.
People....remember the A B C of preventing HIV.
PRACTICE IT.
Only 1 million? Mtvhewwwwwww
Come benue first.....
My brother na only me remain o
OK Na.. Na dey fuck pass.
Linda I hv arrived, post my comment.
Y ARE THEY AFRAID. COME NAIJA NAH.
Chim ooo
E no reach 4million
Meanwhile whites will make fun of Africa and say that it has the higest AIDS rate. And some stupid Nigerians will be agreeing. Whites have all sorts of nasty stds but only focus on Africa's own
Hmm ashawo
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This one small na... As at 2014, official UN figures of people living with HIV in Nigeria is almost 4 million! Major advice, be faithful to your partner & keep away from pre-marital sex! #Shikena
For those asking how many remain for their country, Russia is up to 150 million people. we have more HIV/AIDS patient than them.
For those asking how many remain for their country, Russia is up to 150 million people. we have more HIV/AIDS patient than them.
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Few Months ago i went for check up in the hospital, the doctor took my blood for test and told me to come after 3 days for the results, after 3 days passed i went back to the hospital for the results,and it was then the doctor told me that i was diagnosed with HIV and he told me to come back after 6 months for my medication.
On that very day i was left with no happiness and everything in life became meaningless to me, i began to think on how i could get rid of this virus from my body, i decided to go on internet and do some research, while i was surfing the internet i came across some good testimonials on how Dr Molemen has been using his herbal medicine to treat and save different patients from various diseases and infections, i also saw someone who was commenting on how she was cured from HIV with the medicine.
To me i never believed in them, that was the first time to come across something like that, i just decided to try it out if it did really worked!
They gave the contact details of Dr Molemen and i copied his email and later that night i sent him a message concerning my health.
He later gave me a response and then we talked about the medicine and he said to me he was going to send the medicine to my home address and that he needed my address of where i reside.
I sent him all he requested for in other to get the medicine ready for me, and after 3 days i received a mail from the Post Office and to my surprised it was the herbal medicine from Dr Molemen.
He explained to me on how i was to take the medicine, he said i was to take 2 times daily for 14 days, i followed exactly as i was told, before he sent me the medicine he said that i should go for check up after finish drinking the medicine, so after i finished the medicine i went back to the hospital for check up and told my greatest surprise again i was told that i am negative, i know someone would not believed this, but it did happened to a brother like me, i have always dreamed of living in good health again, thank god everything went well for me and thank god for Dr Molemen Miracle Healing Medicine, you can reach Dr Molemen at ( drmolemenspiritualtemple@gmail.com or ( dr.molemenspiritualtemple@yahoo.com) or call him on +2347036013351, friends this man has a cure to all human disease, do not believe in medical drugs, let try some Natural Remedy.
Forever remain grateful Doc....
AGAIN THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE BUT IT DID HAPPEN..
Few Months ago i went for check up in the hospital, the doctor took my blood for test and told me to come after 3 days for the results, after 3 days passed i went back to the hospital for the results,and it was then the doctor told me that i was diagnosed with HIV and he told me to come back after 6 months for my medication.
On that very day i was left with no happiness and everything in life became meaningless to me, i began to think on how i could get rid of this virus from my body, i decided to go on internet and do some research, while i was surfing the internet i came across some good testimonials on how Dr Molemen has been using his herbal medicine to treat and save different patients from various diseases and infections, i also saw someone who was commenting on how she was cured from HIV with the medicine.
To me i never believed in them, that was the first time to come across something like that, i just decided to try it out if it did really worked!
They gave the contact details of Dr Molemen and i copied his email and later that night i sent him a message concerning my health.
He later gave me a response and then we talked about the medicine and he said to me he was going to send the medicine to my home address and that he needed my address of where i reside.
I sent him all he requested for in other to get the medicine ready for me, and after 3 days i received a mail from the Post Office and to my surprised it was the herbal medicine from Dr Molemen.
He explained to me on how i was to take the medicine, he said i was to take 2 times daily for 14 days, i followed exactly as i was told, before he sent me the medicine he said that i should go for check up after finish drinking the medicine, so after i finished the medicine i went back to the hospital for check up and told my greatest surprise again i was told that i am negative, i know someone would not believed this, but it did happened to a brother like me, i have always dreamed of living in good health again, thank god everything went well for me and thank god for Dr Molemen Miracle Healing Medicine, you can reach Dr Molemen at ( drmolemenspiritualtemple@gmail.com or ( dr.molemenspiritualtemple@yahoo.com) or call him on +2347036013351, friends this man has a cure to all human disease, do not believe in medical drugs, let try some Natural Remedy.
Forever remain grateful Doc....
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