A record 37 thousand Russians died from AIDS last year
The number of people infected with HIV in Russia, according to the latest data from Rospotrebnadzor, is 1.06 million people. As Interfax writes, citing the head of the Federal Center for Prevention and Control of HIV, Vadim Pokrovsky, over the six months of 2019, this figure increased by 47 thousand people. According to the specialist, 37 thousand people died from AIDS in Russia last year, which is a record figure.