Allocations for antiretroviral therapy is only enough for one third of HIV-infected Russians, said senior researcher Federal scientific and methodological center for prevention and control of AIDS “Central research Institute of epidemiology” of Rospotrebnadzor Natalia Ladnaya, RIA Novosti reported on Thursday, September 21.
“A very small number of patients is under medical supervision and receiving treatment. That is, if we have 900 people living with diagnosed HIV infection receive antiretroviral therapy, we only have 300 thousand of them — that is, the third,” — said right on the Ural forum “On measures to prevent the spread of disease caused by human immunodeficiency virus and associated diseases HIV infection” in Yekaterinburg.
Funding the fight against the spread of the virus in Russia should be increased, because the growth rate of infections in the country remain among the highest in the world, said the expert. She also gave details of morbidity to the end of 2016: was 1 million 114 thousand HIV-infected. 250 thousand of them died.
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, “These freaks want to put him in therapy,”Where are and for that fight HIV-dissidents
One of the factors of growth of infection is the activity of HIV-dissidents, said okay. “They believe that this disease does not exist, and convincing other people,” — said the expert.
According to her, the responsibility for the dissemination of false views about the virus can enter up to the end of the year.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Duma Committee on the family, Oksana Pushkina said that the state Duma is preparing a bill requiring parents to send children with HIV to treatment. The document will be considered at the autumn session.