Living with HIV in Eastern Europe and the CIS: Part 3

Discrimination and the social exclusion of people living with HIV are undermining efforts to respond to AIDS, according to a new report regional Human Development Report released on Wednesday (Dec 10) by the UN Development Programme.

The region of Eastern Europe and the CIS remains one of the few areas in the world where HIV prevalence continues to rise: from an estimated 630,000 people living with the virus in 2001 to 1.5 million as of 2007 a 140 percent increase. Nearly 90 percent of newly reported HIV cases in the region are from the Russian Federation and Ukraine. In Central Asia and the Caucuses, the number of newly reported HIV diagnoses is also rising rapidly, with the highest incidence rate found in Uzbekistan.

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[Lee7676]

is HIV treatment free of charge in Russia? i now HIV treatment is very expensive

in America.