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HIV Infection Rate Spreading in Russia

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 18th, 1996

The number of people testing HIV positive has more than quadrupled in 1996 in Russia, where the virus has been spreading rapidly among drug addicts.

About 800 new cases have been registered so far in 1996, compared to 190 in all of 1995, according to Irina Savchenko, Russian Center against AIDS. She said as many as 560 of the new cases are intravenous drug users, who likely became infected by sharing needles.

"The process was very slow while homosexuals, prostitutes, etc. were spreading HIV," Savchenko said. "But when the disease enters the environment of drug addicts, it starts to spread like a forest fire.

"That is why we have...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1996-11-18)

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