According to deputy head of Yekaterinburg health department Tatyana Savinova, the city recorded 26,693 cases of HIV. Thus, almost every fiftieth resident of Ekaterinburg is the carrier of the virus.
Registered are 774 children, the diagnosis is officially confirmed in 342.
According to Savinova, the figures show number of people with officially confirmed diagnosis, the real numbers are even higher.
The city HIV numbers are dominated by the “drug” transmission, accounting for 52% of detected cases. HIV transmission through sexual contact was detected in 46% of cases. However, the sharp increase in the the numbers in recent years, according to doctors, is precisely due to sexual transmission.
“It is a myth that HIV is only spreading among the young and drug addicts — we see an increased incidence in older categories — 30-39 and 40-49, meduza.io quoted Savinova. — When the infection gets into the social environment, it gets more intensive dissemination”.
In general, the Sverdlovsk region is in first place in Russia in the number of cases per hundred thousand inhabitants.
Commenting on the HIV epidemic in the city, head of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman wrote in his twitter that “the situation is common to the country” and the city authorities are “just not afraid to talk about it”.
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In January this year, there was a million of officially registered HIV-positive cases in Russia.
