Federal AIDS Center: Over the year, the number of HIV-positive Russians increased by 100 thousand
In Russia, the increase in the number of HIV-positive citizens continues, the head of the Federal Scientific and Methodological Center for the prevention and combating of AIDS, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vadim Pokrovsky, told Interfax . At a press conference dedicated to the Memory Day of the deceased from AIDS, he said that in 2017, Rosstat registered 104,402 new cases of HIV.