Epidemiology

International AIDS experts say HIV skyrocketing in Ukraine

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 23rd, 2002

HIV infection rates are skyrocketing in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine and experts estimate that 1% of the nation's 48 million people are currently infected, the organizers of international AIDS conference say.

Officials have registered 49,873 cases of HIV in Ukraine. But the actual number of victims is likely to be in the hundreds of thousands and could rise to 1.44 million by 2010 if no effective measures are taken, the conference organizers said in a statement.

The AIDS virus is increasingly being spread through sexual contact, as opposed to intravenous drug use, Ukraine's health ministry said. The number of sexually transmitted HIV...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-12-23)

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