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Russian Doctors Warn About Rapid Increase of HIV Cases

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

November 27, 2001

The number of officially registered HIV-infected people has reached 163,000 in Russia, but the actual figure may be five to ten times as big, Alexander Goliusov, chief of the Russian Health Ministry's AIDS department, said on Monday. "If the epidemic of AIDS continues to spread at its current pace, the entire budget of our public health system will not be enough to treat people infected with this lethal virus," Goliusov told a news conference dedicated to World AIDS Day. Goliusov said the US pharmaceutical producer Merck & Co. had announced a sizable cut in prices for its HIV drugs, and the Russian Public Health Ministry now had an opportunity to buy them at a price almost 70 percent below the earlier price.


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Itar-Tass News Agency
11.27.01; Anna Bazhenova

  
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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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