Large increase in HIV deaths since 2000.
HIV prevalence by province in Russia. Image from tochno.st/problems/hivAlthough well over half of new cases of HIV in the World Health Organization (WHO) European region (which includes Siberia and Central Asia) occur in Russia, there is surprisingly little we know on a nationwide level about the country’s epidemic.
This is partly due to deliberate lack of transparency by Russian authorities but it also to do with the fact that notifications of HIV cases, notifications of deaths and figures for HIV prevalence are all collected by different authorities and not collated. In addition, owing to Russia’s culture of stigma against key affected populations, comprehensive statistics on the likely route of transmission are not collected.
Read the full story at Aidsmap.
Source : Aidsmap
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