There were 90,000 new HIV cases in Russia in 2014

[barryqwalsh]

The Aids centre further estimate that the number of HIV infections will reach 2 million by 2019. Since Russia's first recorded case of HIV in 1987, around 204,000 people have died as a result of the virus.

57 per cent of Russians infected with the virus acquired it through drug use, with around 20 per cent of the country's large number of known drug users testing positive for the disease. Russia has the largest number of intravenous drug users in the world – 1.8 million of them, according to a 2012 Lancet study.

Only around 30 per cent of Russians diagnosed with HIV currently receive the antriretroviral medication that their bodies need to stop the virus from multiplying.


Russia's record-breaking HIV epidemic: what you need to know

 

[The Great Goose]

Just keep it on the downlow.

khans. Lol, what can ya do.

 

[barryqwalsh]

Russia's Demography Just Took A Significant Turn For The Worse


One month does not make a conclusive trend, but Rosstat just released its preliminary demographic data for January 2015and the results are ugly. Compared to the previous year, deaths were up and births were down by 2 and 4% respectively. This means that the overall natural movement in population for the month was -25,000, compared to only -15,000 the year before.

The uptick in mortality is particularly disconcerting as it was the result of increases in the cardiovascular diseases that have traditionally been most problematic for Russia. The death rate from external causes actually decreased by a full 5%, likely aided by a relatively mild winter, but this improvement wasn’t nearly enough to overcome increases in deaths from diseases of the circulatory system, diseases of the digestive system, and lung disease (which increased by a whopping 12.6%).


Russia's Demography Just Took A Significant Turn For The Worse

 

[Sbiker]

Russia's Demography Just Took A Significant Turn For The Worse


One month does not make a conclusive trend, but Rosstat just released its preliminary demographic data for January 2015and the results are ugly. Compared to the previous year, deaths were up and births were down by 2 and 4% respectively. This means that the overall natural movement in population for the month was -25,000, compared to only -15,000 the year before.

The uptick in mortality is particularly disconcerting as it was the result of increases in the cardiovascular diseases that have traditionally been most problematic for Russia. The death rate from external causes actually decreased by a full 5%, likely aided by a relatively mild winter, but this improvement wasn’t nearly enough to overcome increases in deaths from diseases of the circulatory system, diseases of the digestive system, and lung disease (which increased by a whopping 12.6%).


Russia's Demography Just Took A Significant Turn For The Worse

How awful!

What about February of 2015? Or March? Or April? Or annual statistic? ))))))))

As annual statistic for 2015, increasing of Russian population:

by born: 32 723
by migration : 219 748
by returning historically ours territories: 1 908 322 )))))))