AIDS retreated from Moscow youth

Today, the Moscow authorities approved the Antovich/AIDS program for 2008-2009 to fight AIDS in Moscow by informing the population. This method of combating AIDS was effective. A few days ago, during the Video Mosque Moscow - Delhi, the head of the capital Center for Prevention and AIDS fighting, Alexei Mazur, noted that educational programs have a beneficial effect on a reduction in incidence among young people. For three years in Moscow among young people, the number of HIV-infected people decreased by 20 times. The absolute majority of the identified cases of infected in 2007-2008 are Muscovites over 23 years old.

The main age group of HIV-infected are persons from 15 to 39 years old, which in the total structure of the sick are more than 81%. According to Rospotrebnadzor, in the capital, compared with 2006, the number of cases of HIV infection of HIV infection increased in 2007 by more than 14%, reaching almost 28 thousand. As of January 1 of this year, 27.717 thousand HIV -infected were registered in Moscow, AIDS was diagnosed in 1.604 thousand people, of which 510 people in 2007.

Of the total number of infected, more than half are women aged 20 to 29 years. In 2007, 610 children were born from HIV-infected mothers, of which 24 babies were transferred at birth. Most of the newly infected citizens in 2007 infected HIV sexually. The percentage of newly registered HIV-infected, using drugs, decreased from 89% in 2000 to 26% in 2007.

07/16/2008 / Irina Vlasova