Izvestia: HIV incidence is growing in Russia
The HIV epidemic is gaining momentum in Russia: 7.2 thousand new cases of infection were identified in May alone. In total, almost 23 thousand people were diagnosed with HIV infection in March, April and May. As Izvestia reports , citing the Rosstat report “Socio-economic situation in Russia” published in August, 51% of cases of the disease occur in 13 regions of the country. These are the Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Sverdlovsk, Samara, Chelyabinsk regions, St.