U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Russia Set to Join World Anti-AIDS Efforts: Ministry

June 29, 2001

Russia is set to cooperate with the international community in fighting HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, the Russian Foreign Ministry said today. Gennady Onishchenko, Russia's chief sanitation physician and leader of the nation's delegation to the UN General Assembly special session on AIDS, said that Russia had registered a total of 115,000 HIV-infected people. Although HIV incidence has surged, only 1,000 cases of AIDS have been identified in Russia, Onishchenko said. He added that the major determinant of HIV's spread in Russia was increasing intravenous drug use.

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06.29.01; Anton Uskov

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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