Essay: Russia's HIV/AIDS epidemic
As recently as 2022, Russia was cited as having the fifth highest rate of new HIV diagnoses globally.[1]
The Kennan Institute reported in 2023 about Russia's AIDS epidemic:
| “ | As recently as 2022, Russia was cited as having the fifth highest rate of new HIV diagnoses globally... The high prevalence of HIV is attributable to multiple factors, including high rates of intravenous drug use and unprotected sex among high-risk populations.
Today, Russia’s response remains muted, and the crisis continues to grow. The rate of infections is estimated to increase by 10 percent to 15 percent per year, meaning that up to 150,000 Russians will be diagnosed with HIV in 2023 alone. Russia’s population is over 140 million people. For comparison, in the United States, with a population of over 330 million, approximately 36,000 are estimated to be infected in 2023.[2] |
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Politico reported about Russia's AIDS epidemic in 2020:
| “ | Today, there’s little denying that AIDS is also a Russian disease. More than 340,000 Russians have died of AIDS, two-thirds of them in the past decade. In 2018 alone, the last year for which precise figures are available, AIDS took the lives of 37,000 people across Russia, with the rate of new infections rising by between 10 percent and 15 percent a year, according to the World Health Organization...
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.[3] |
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See also
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References
- ↑ HIV in Russia Is a Human Rights Problem, 2023
- ↑ HIV in Russia Is a Human Rights Problem, 2023
- ↑ The epidemic Russia doesn’t want to talk about, Politico, 2020
