{"id":571,"date":"2007-01-10T23:11:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T23:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2007\/01\/hiv-on-the-rise.html"},"modified":"2007-01-10T23:11:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T23:11:15","slug":"hiv-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/01\/hiv-on-the-rise.html","title":{"rendered":"HIV on the Rise in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia has the largest HIV epidemic in Europe, and accounts for around two-thirds of the cases in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. There were an estimated 940,000 people living with HIV at the end of 2005 in Russia – up from 760,000 in 2003 – this figure looks set to increase even further.<\/p>\n

It is widely acknowledged that Russia’s official statistics represent only a fraction of the actual number of HIV infected Russians. Most experts estimate that the true number is somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million – or over 2 percent to the population.<\/p>\n

Epidemiologists warn that up to 8 million Russians, or over 10 percent of the adult population, could be infected by 2010. The epidemic is growing fastest among young people age 15-30, the same group that should be leading Russia into the 21st century.  <\/p>\n

Many times when we think of HIV, we think of Africa. But this plague is killing millions throughout the entire world.<\/p>\n

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