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Although needle-sharing among drug addicts was one of the main reasons the disease spread so quickly, most HIV transmissions in Russia — 57 percent — are now a result of heterosexual sex. Drug use is responsible for 40 percent, while gay sex accounts for around 3 percent, according to Russia’s Federal Research Center for AIDS Prevention and Control in Moscow.<ref>[https://www.politico.eu/article/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-aids-in-russia-but-putin-was-afraid-to-ask/ The epidemic Russia doesn’t want to talk about], Politico, 2020</ref>}}
Although needle-sharing among drug addicts was one of the main reasons the disease spread so quickly, most HIV transmissions in Russia — 57 percent — are now a result of heterosexual sex. Drug use is responsible for 40 percent, while gay sex accounts for around 3 percent, according to Russia’s Federal Research Center for AIDS Prevention and Control in Moscow.<ref>[https://www.politico.eu/article/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-aids-in-russia-but-putin-was-afraid-to-ask/ The epidemic Russia doesn’t want to talk about], Politico, 2020</ref>}}
== Alcoholism in Russia has increased for the first time in 10 years ==
Alcoholism in Russia has increased for the first time in 10 years, Russia’s business news daily Kommersant [https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6453350 reported] citing data from the state statistics agency Rosstat.
== See also ==
== See also ==