Young Russian HIV+ rates soar
01/04/2005 17:24  - (SA)  

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Moscow - More than 80% of HIV-positive people in most of the former Soviet Union are under 30, according to a report published on Friday.

"Young people are more vulnerable to Aids because of quick social changes and economic difficulties... They face poverty and unemployment," said a report issued at the end of an international Aids conference in Moscow.

According to the study's conclusions, 70% of all new registered cases of HIV in the countries that make up the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which includes all the former Soviet republics except the Baltic states, are linked to growing drug consumption.

In Ukraine, for example, 25% of Aids-infected people are teenagers and in Belarus 60% of all HIV-positive people are aged between 15 and 24, said the report.

Official figures say about 1.4 million people are registered HIV-positive in the CIS.

 

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