Russia Out-Of-Control HIV Epidemic' After Fresh New Record Cases

 

Russia and
 some former Soviet Union countries are at risk of out-of-control HIV epidemics following a record number of new cases, say experts.
There are more than 104,000 new HIV diagnosis in Russia in 2017, which takes total cases more than 1.2million, but the number of infected people is believed to be higher.  The situation has to do with experts - marked World Aids Day on Saturday - as Russia and Ukraine account for 75 percent of all new infections in Europe amid a global decline.  Russia faces a growing crisis with a rate of 71.1 new infections per 100,000 people - more than 10 times Western Europe (6.4 infected per 100,000 people).  Most of the new cases in the former Soviet Union in 2017 were from heterosexual sex while the disease spread beyond the high-risk groups, according to World Health Organization (WHO) research and European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

The increased rate of new diagnoses in the region since 2012
 comes amid a global decline.

Masoud Dara, HIV specialist at
 the WHO, said it could be "an early indication of overspill in
 the general population".


He told the Thomson Reuters Foundation: "HIV starts off (in) key populations - meaning drug users,
 commercial sex workers and men having sex with men - but after
 that it (increases) exponentially ... if there is no more
 intervention."

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