MOSCOW\u2013The number of new HIV cases in Russia noticeably slowed down in 2016, Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said on Monday.<\/p>\n
“The number of new cases reduced dramatically in 2016, to 86,600,” she said, adding that a year before the number of new HIV cases had exceeded 100,000.<\/p>\n
Apart from that, she said HIV testing coverage increased in 2016 by 13% The anti-HIV therapy coverage of infected patients rose as well. “In the past ten years, we expanded the anti-HIV therapy coverage 18-fold,” she said. In her words, about 40% of the overall number of HIV patients received anti-HIV therapy in 2016 and the figure is expected to go up to 55% in 2017.<\/p>\n
The minister noted that the above-mentioned efforts have helped reduce the number of mother-to-child HIV transmission cases. “In 2016, we achieved a 1.7% result. It means that out of 15,980 babies born by HIV-infected mothers only 281 contracted HIV,” the minister said, adding that the figure was five percent in 2012.<\/p>\n
Notably, according to Skvortsova, most of the HIV-infected women who gave birth to HIV-infected babies were migrants from the former Soviet republics who came to Russia with the intention of giving birth to a child, for the so-called childbirth tourism.<\/p>\n
The nationwide Stop HIV\/AIDS campaign kicked off at a Moscow students\u2019 forum on Monday. Its organizers are the fund for socio-cultural initiatives under the Russian health ministry, Russia\u2019s consumer rights watchdog and other agencies. The goal is to draw public attention to HIV-related problems in Russia.<\/p>\n
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