The governor denies a deficiency of HIV drugs in Novosibirsk

In the Novosibirsk region there are enough drugs to provide HIV-positive residents, said Governor Vladimir Gorodetsky. Earlier, patients of the regional AIDS center announced a lack of drugs

Novosibirsk ranks third in Siberia for HIV incidence - 29 thousand infected are registered in the region. The epidemic, according to doctors, went beyond the vulnerable groups and is spreading among the socially adapted population.

Taiga.info

Details

wrote about

epidemics

.

"Problem

HIV infection

It has a place. There is an acuteness of the problem, ”admitted Vladimir Gorodetsky on May 13 during

Online conferences

On the NGS website

. “I literally the day before yesterday was in the [Center for virology and biotechnology]“ Vector ”, where they considered what vaccination methods they develop.”

About the absence of all the necessary drugs, contrary to the statements of the regional Ministry of Health,

declare

Patients of the Center for AIDS. Serious

Interruptions

With

Arv-therapy

the consequence of which was the replacements of treatment schemes, negatively perceived

HIV-positive

Novosibirsk, began in the fall of 2015.

“It is said [about the absence of drugs]. There are medicines. All or not all - the Ministry of Health will answer you, ”said Gorodetsky. Deputy Minister of Health Yaroslav Frolov and the former head physician of the Center for AIDS NAIL Chernousov previously told Taiga.info that the words of patients about the deficit could be due to the fact that during public procurement, cheaper analogues of famous drugs are acquired.

The governor promised to hold a general meeting with experts on the HIV problem in the region.

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