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News Briefs Russia's AIDS Prognosis Gloomy -- ExpertsOctober 15, 2002 A note from TheBody.com: Since this article was written, the HIV pandemic has changed, as has our understanding of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information! At a press conference in Moscow yesterday, Viktor Maleyev, chief infection expert of Russia's Health Ministry, said the nation's health system would be confronted in the future with the management of AIDS patients also infected with hepatitis C. "More than half of the registered 215,000 carriers of HIV will need therapy," Maleyev said. "The situation with AIDS and intercurrent hepatitis C has reached a critical level." Maleyev said people registered with HIV infection make up more than 1 percent of the population in several Russian regions. Oleg Yurin, the deputy chief of the Federal Center for AIDS Control, said the actual number of HIV-infected people is likely to be 10 to 20 times higher. "If urgent measures are not taken and the financing of programs aimed at disease prevention is not increased, there will be 3 to 4 million HIV-infected in Russia in a few years," Yurin said. ITAR-TASS News Agency 10.15.02; Vladimir Golovchansky A note from TheBody.com: Since this article was written, the HIV pandemic has changed, as has our understanding of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information!  This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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