GENEVA (Reuters) - The HIV/AIDS epidemic has exploded in Eastern
Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), posing the greatest
health threat to youth in the region, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
In a report, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that HIV/AIDS was
spreading "virtually unchecked" into the wider population through heterosexual
contact with injection drug users.
Russia and Ukraine account for nine-tenths of the estimated one million
HIV/AIDS cases in the 27 transition countries, according to UNICEF's Social
Monitor 2002. The figure, through 2001, compares with 700,000 one year
earlier and 420,000 in 1998.
"HIV is spreading at a faster rate in some countries in the region than
in any other part of the world," UNICEF said.
"The HIV epidemic is the biggest threat to young people's health in
the region. There is also little evidence that public interventions to
halt the spread of HIV in the hardest hit countries have been sufficiently
effective," according to the report.
Estonia has the region's highest rate of new HIV infections, with more
than one in every 1,000 people infected in 2001--almost 20 times the average
rate in the European Union, according to the report produced by UNICEF's
Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy.
In the CIS countries, a quarter of all officially registered infections
between 1997 and 2000 were among women, suggesting increasing heterosexual
transmission, it said.
But awareness of the need to use condoms to prevent transmission remains
poor in the region, in which the number of sex workers and injection drug
users is growing, it noted.
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Моя маленькая имха ;)
Материал Рейтерс
бессовестно врёт: нигде в мире, пожалуй, нет такого тщательного ВИЧ скрининга
как в РФ (см. ниже по линькам), Сыр бор, как кажется, разгорелся из-за
отказа РФ принять ВИЧ-связанный кредит Мирового банка, который позволил
бы международному медицинскому сообществу безбедно и неплохо жить за наш
с вами счёт. Не зря США время от времени выходят из ООН и подобных организаций.