PROCAARE: Epidemiology, Russia

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[From the CDC AIDSNews Service.  Is anyone familiar with programs or plans
in Russia, such as needle exchanges, to interrupt this epidemic? - Mod.]

"About 3,000 Test HIV-Positive in Russia in 1997"
Itar Wire Service (09/13/97)
     In this year alone, some 2,985 people have tested
HIV-positive in Russia, raising the total number of known
infections to 5,550.  The snowballing figures are primarily the
result of shared drug paraphernalia, according to the Health
Ministry's Department of Sanitation and Epidemiologic Oversight.
Kaliningrad has recorded the largest number of HIV infections by
far, with 1,656 cases; followed by Krasnodar, 873; Moscow and
Moscow region, 593; Tver, 383; Rostov-on-Don, 373; and Nizhny
Novgorod, also 373.

David Radune <dradune@smtpinet.aspensys.com>

KEYWORDS: Epidemiology, Incidence, Russia
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