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The health Department of Ekaterinburg has denied the announcement of the HIV epidemic in the city, reports TASS.
“In Ekaterinburg officially generalized stage of HIV infection. It was announced yesterday or the day before, it was a long time ago. I don’t tend to think that the CPS will officially announce the epidemic of HIV infection, as it is not a seasonal disease like the flu,” — said the first Deputy head Tatyana Savinova.
The representative office noted that official statements about the beginning of the epidemic it did not. “I don’t know why the media is writing about the epidemic, most likely, journalists impose this situation on a flu and it seems that there was something incredible, although there is nothing supernatural,” — said Savinov.
Earlier, on 2 November, the mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman said that the HIV epidemic in the city began long ago. “About the HIV epidemic we knew 17 years ago. It is connected with nakakarelate, which took place in Yekaterinburg. At the rehabilitation center know that 40 percent of boys, heroin addicts were HIV-infected. Girls, heroin addicts, almost all were HIV-positive, in addition, almost all of them were prostitutes,” he said. Roizman also noted that a similar situation with the incidence of HIV observed in all of Russia.
In November it was reported that the health Department of the city administration has officially announced the HIV epidemic. The city was almost 27 thousand cases of HIV infection, the infected 1.8% of the population. About 52 percent were infected through drug, and 46 percent through sex.
In January, the number of HIV-infected people in Russia exceeded one million people. According to Rospotrebnadzor, in 2015 was officially registered more than 86 thousand new HIV cases in 2014 — around 85 thousand. Since registering the first HIV case in the country in 1987 for different reasons died about 205 thousand HIV-infected.