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More Than 3,500 New HIV Cases Registered Every Month in Russia

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

September 5, 2002

More than 3,500 new HIV cases are registered every month in Russia, the State Statistics Committee reported recently. Interfax reported that in June, 3,573 HIV cases, including 30 children, were registered. In May, the government registered 3,569 HIV cases. The Russian Research Center for Prevention and Treatment of AIDS said the number of HIV-infected people could be five times higher than the official 200,000 figure quoted. St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region registered the most new cases, with 17.7 percent of 24,550 newly registered HIV patients; 10.6 percent of the new patients live in Moscow; while 10.3 percent were registered in the Sverdlov region in the Urals Mountains.

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Adapted from:
Associated Press
08.28.02

  
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