Russia has the highest level of HIV sickness rate among all European countries, and whole region of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR is a champion in rate of epidemic spread, estimated UNO experts.
The main cause of high level of population infection lies in extremely high amount of young people who use drugs intravenously. People infected with HIV through needle, at their turn, pass infection by coitus.
According to HIV report, 340 thousands of drug-addicted people were registered in Russia by the end of 2004, but actual amount is several timed higher. HIV is irregularly distributed over Russia - about 60% of infection cases are registered at 10 out of 89 Russian regions. The main mass of diseased (about 80%) is people younger than 30 years. The situation in Russian prisons is even worse. Part of HIV-positive is 4 times higher than over the country.
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