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The chief state sanitary doctor of Russia Anna Popova spoke out for the introduction of mandatory HIV testing before the wedding. She stated this at the All -Russian Youth Educational Forum "Territory of meanings on Klyazma", TASS reports .

“I would support such an initiative, because the purpose of creating a family is always the birth of children,” Popova noted. In her opinion, it is also advisable for future parents to undergo genetic examinations and tests for hepatitis.

“Today, half a percent of the country's population is affected by HIV infection,” Popova said. In total, the virus was found in 912,880 residents of the country. According to Rospotrebnadzor, in 2014, 89,177 new cases of infection were identified in the country.

Popova also promised to help Crimea with express tests to determine HIV. Before the annexation of the peninsula, all express tests were provided by foreign partners. This cooperation has ceased, and now in the Crimea there is not a single laboratory conducting express tests for HIV. Meanwhile, the number of infected on the peninsula is estimated at 30 thousand people.

The deputy head of the State Duma Committee on Health, Unenos, Nikolai Gerasimenko, approved Popova’s proposal, Interfax reports . "A reasonable proposal should be supported, our number of HIV -infected people is growing and this becomes a serious problem. I think the chief sanitary doctor is absolutely right," the deputy said.

At the same time, the head of the Federal Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Combating of AIDS Academician of the RAMS Vadim Pokrovsky believes that such an examination is useful, but should be exclusively voluntary.

In August 2013, Pokrovsky announced the plans of Rospotrebnadzor to conduct mass testing of homosexuals and prostitutes for HIV. It was supposed to make a sample like used in sociological research and distribute testing by regions in order to more accurately assess the number of infected ones.

At that time, about 600 thousand HIV-infected were registered in Russia. Their total, taking into account undiagnosed cases, doctors estimated at 1.2-1.3 million people. In 2013, Russia overtook the United States in the number of HIV carriers, although the population of the United States is more than two times higher than in Russia, Pokrovsky noted. He explained this by a decrease in financing allocated to preventive measures.