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Living with HIV in Eastern Europe and the CIS: Part 1

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Uploaded by on Dec 10, 2008

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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  • Wow she is a beautiful woman and a strong minded one at that, I don't understand how these people can contract the virus and yet have children?

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  • oh god! scientists need to come up with AIDS vaccine or cure quickly so all this tragedy will never happen to other people.otherwise we will get infected with this bug call HIV... she is so brave.i adore her!

  • safe sex is the main topic on a HIV dating site named "HIVlover,,com". The most of the users on that site said they can face the condition correctly and they can control it in their sex life

  • Anyone can get HIV just open your mind

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