The head of the AIDS Combat Center retorted to Onishchenko - Russians and so little condoms use

The public continues to discuss the livestock topic - the on the eve of the proposal of the Ministry of Industry and Trade to expand the list of foreign medical devices, including condoms, which relate to the restrictions during public procurement. On Tuesday, the former head of Rospotrebnadzor, Doctor of Medical Sciences and Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko, now working as an assistant to the head of government Dmitry Medvedev, said that condoms “have nothing to do with health”, and the restriction of their purchases will force the Russians to be more disciplined, more strict and selective in the choice of partners, ”and also help the company in solving demographic demographic problems.

However, the head of the Federal Scientific and Methodological Center for the prevention and combating of AIDS Vadim Pokrovsky did not agree with the point of view of Onishchenko. In an interview with URA.RU , he said that a decrease in condom accessibility can negatively affect the situation with the incidence of HIV infection.

"Our population, unfortunately, uses very few condoms. Firstly, condoms in Russia are quite expensive, and secondly, we are embarrassed to buy them. The main efforts should not be aimed at causing some damage to foreign firms. Continels should become more accessible to people," Pokrovsky noted.

The head of the center reminded the well -known facts that Onishchenko tried to challenge for an incomprehensible reason - that the use of condoms reduces the number of sexually transmitted diseases, and also helps to avoid unwanted pregnancy and sexual infections leading to infertility.

According to Vadim Pokrovsky, instead of making plans to limit the procurement of foreign condoms, the state must do everything to ensure that high -quality "rubber products" in Russia become cheaper. In the meantime, the situation, according to the expert, in the Russian Federation, the depressing - "on average per day we have 250 cases of infection", half of them are sexually.

In May, Rospotrebnadzor confirmed this information, stating that the “epidemiological situation on HIV infection remains tense in the Russian Federation, and indicating that" more than 200 Russians are infected daily. " In total, according to the agency, 907 thousand cases of HIV infection were registered in Russia.

According to information, the federal scientific and methodological center for the prevention and combating of AIDS, headed by Vadim Pokrovsky, in the Russian Federation, on May 1, 2015, more than 933 thousand HIV-infected were registered. In mid -May, the issue of the rapid spread of AIDS began to actively discuss the press after Pokrovsky warned of the national threat associated with the disease.

In the Kremlin, the issue of restrictions on procurement of foreign condoms did not think "

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the Kremlin’s reaction to the statement of the Ministry of Industry and Trade about the restriction of the procurement of foreign condoms became known on Wednesday, TASS reports. “They didn’t think about it in the Kremlin,” said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, answering the question of how the authorities relate to the proposal to refuse to purchase import contraceptives.

Recall, on the eve, it became known that the Ministry of Industry and Trade prepared a draft resolution in which it is proposed to limit the purchase of foreign medical devices by state and municipal hospitals. The prohibited list includes X -ray devices, cardiac valves prostheses, defibrillators, crutches, canes, walkers, mattresses, bandages, tampons, antiseptics and disinfectants, gauze masks and condoms.

The bill suggests that in order to make the purchase of these types of medical devices, the customer must reject all applications from suppliers from foreign states. This rule does not apply to Armenia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. At the same time, the ban will be applied only on condition that at least two applications from suppliers from the EAEU countries are submitted to participate in the tender, as well as when applications do not contain proposals for the supply of a medical product of only one manufacturer.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Sergey Tsyb previously emphasized that the document has nothing to do with the commercial market and the sale of drugs and drugs through pharmacies, we are only talking about public procurement.

In February, the Ministry of Industry and Trade introduced to the Government of the Russian Federation a draft resolution on limiting public procurement of drugs. The draft document of the document applies to all drugs purchased for state -owners, including from the list of vital and most important drugs (GNLP). The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev at the same time approved the list of foreign medical devices that are limited to public procurement. Currently, the list includes more than 600 positions - in particular, medical clothing, antiseptic napkins, some types of tomographs, electrocardiographs, needles, syringes, tweezers and bores, hearing aids, glucometers.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade on the eve of RIA Novosti was told that the department’s proposal to restrict public procurement of foreign medical devices is not applied to 98% of the Russian condom market.

"By state customers, both condoms for ultrasound and condoms for AIDS prevention are purchased. Both the products are purchased by budget healthcare institutions in volumes significant for the development of domestic manufacturers. At the same time, the share of retail sales of condoms for which the regulatory act does not exceed, exceeds 98% of the total volume Market, ”the press service noted.