The head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko said the "feminization" of the epidemic of the virus. Official statistics agency says that in 2011 there were 62,000 new cases of AIDS infection.
The victims of the deadly disease were mainly middle-aged people (42, 1% of those infected), the majority of whom are women. Just a Russian virus infected 630,000 people (according to the Federal Research and Methodological Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS at the end of 2011).
"The main impact of year already accounted for Russians aged 30-40 years - said Gennady Onishchenko. - Even a decade ago, AIDS was distributed mainly among young people (24, 7% of new cases in 2001 were reported by adolescents). Now the younger generation more carefully observe the prevention of HIV infection (1, 8% of cases in 2011), but the adults, on the contrary, admit negligence in this matter. "
The main cause of AIDS infection Onishchenko called heavy opiates. Russian drug addicts often use the same syringe, passing it to each other. In this way, infected 56, 7% of HIV-infected people.
The virus is transmitted through unprotected sex and, the official said. Over the last 3 years the number of observations of AIDS patients infected through the bed, increased by 4, 5%.
"Compared with 2010, the carriers of this virus was a 5% increase. The average incidence was 43, 4 per 100 000 population. However, the number of HIV-infected people in each region has its own. In Siberia, the Volga region and the Urals infected with AIDS much more than in the Southern, North Caucasus and Far Eastern districts of AIDS. In the European part of the country, though the figures are high, but the dynamics of their growth is not "
- Assured Gennady Onishchenko.
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