Russia: HIV spreads beyond risk groups in 27 regions, epidemiologists say
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A generalised HIV epidemic is occurring in 27 regions of the Russian Federation, according to reports from the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor. Scientists apply this classification when the human immunodeficiency virus spreads throughout the general population rather than remaining confined to traditional risk groups, with HIV diagnosed in more than 1 percent of pregnant women in these affected areas. The situation is noted as being most serious in the Kemerovo, Irkutsk, and Sverdlovsk regions, where individuals increasingly transmit the virus while often unaware of their infection.
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