Health issues

sepheronx wrote:Hey KVS:

http://tass.ru/en/society/831521

Looks like the idiots are stating again how HIV will drastically increase in Russia by 250% and such due to funding. LOL.  What a bunch of dolts.

Werewolf wrote:Vice news is a branch of Fox News. Why use such a "source"?

Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the federal Aids centre in Moscow, predicted this month that at least two million Russians are likely to be officially registered as HIV-positive within five years, and a total of three million will have the virus.

We’re talking about one-to-two million infected now, and in 2005, we could be talking about five-million being infected, and these are realistic, even conservative figures.

HIV 'epidemic': Official says nearly every 50th resident of Russian Urals city infected

Almost every 50th citizen in the city of Ekaterinburg in Russia’s Ural region has been infected with the HIV virus, a health official said, noting that the situation has already reached epidemic proportions.
“Almost every 50th resident of Ekaterinburg is infected with HIV,” Tatiana Savinova, the first deputy head of the city’s health department, said during a press conference, adding that outbreaks are considered an epidemic when the infection rate reaches 1 percent – a threshold that has already been surpassed in Ekaterinburg.

The city of 1.5 million people “has reached a generalized stage of the infection,” she said, as cited by TASS. “For us doctors, the HIV epidemic has already started," since so many people are sick in Ekaterinburg. But this did not happen yesterday, she said, while noting that the epidemic has not been announced officially.

The Sverdlovsk region where Ekaterinburg is located tops the list of Russian regions afflicted by HIV. In the first nine months of 2016, the HIV infection rate there stood at 118.2 per 100,000 people.

On the other hand, the Sverdlovsk region also has more people tested for HIV – over 23 percent of the population – while in other regions only 15 people are generally tested, according to Savinova.

The infection is ‘getting older,’ with many people infected now 30-49 years old – and not all are from society’s marginal layer.

“These are not drug addicts or homeless people; they are socially prosperous people. A mass infection took place in the 1990s, when prostitution and drug addiction were wide spread,” Savinova said.

“Ekaterinburg’s health authorities have registered some 26,693 cases of HIV,” the city’s mayor, Evgeny Roizman, said, as cited by RIA Novosti. That amounts 1,826 cases per 100,000 people, or 1.8 percent of the city’s population.

Earlier, in an interview with Ura.ru news portal, Savinova said that the majority of those infected receive antiretroviral drugs, but this is still not enough, and the HIV epidemic is spreading.

“If [the Russian authorities] don’t take action in the next five years, the situation could become absolutely deplorable,” Savinova said.

Savinova drew an example from UNAIDS 90×90×90 strategy aimed at battling HIV and AIDS worldwide, whose targets stipulate that, by 2020, 90 percent of all people living with HIV “will know their HIV status,” 90 percent of all people diagnosed with HIV “will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy,” and 90 percent of all people “receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression.”

https://www.rt.com/news/365089-russia-urals-hiv-rate/

PapaDragon wrote:
Better start using condoms already

Project Canada wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:
Better start using condoms already

Im kinda hoping its just media exaggeration, otherwise its a really serious  problem that the Russian gov needs to address  immediately  

Countrary to what western media believes and would have you believe prevalence of HIV in Russia is:

Low
Falling
and largely limited to injecting drug users
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KomissarBojanchev wrote:Is this a myth? Because every single western propaganda source is now parroting this trend. I've seen statistics, and the HIV rates do seem to be rising. Apparentlt its because health clinics dont have enough money to afford sterile needles.

kvs wrote:

KomissarBojanchev wrote:Is this a myth? Because every single western propaganda source is now parroting this trend. I've seen statistics, and the HIV rates do seem to be rising. Apparentlt its because health clinics dont have enough money to afford sterile needles.

There is a hysteria every several years where all sorts of worms come out of the woodwork in Russia to pronounce doom and
gloom.

1) No evidence has ever been presented that the previous estimates of doom are on target.   That is, they were total
BS back then and it is crystal clear in hindsight.

2) The projections of doom are devoid of reality.   Why is Russia special compared to the USA for example?   People are
well aware of HIV and how to prevent its spread in Russia.   Russia does not have rampant homosexualism of 1980s
variety were partners in unprotected sex were a dime a dozen.    This leaves the insinuation that Russians fornicate
outside of married couples like rabbits.   I would like to see evidence that unprotected heterosexual sex with multiple
partners is more widespread than the USA and the EU.  

2b) Drug use (e.g. heroin) in Russia is not out of control compared to the west.   I see no evidence presented that
drug use is growing out of control.

3) The pattern here is clear.  This is anti-Russian propaganda that leverages the standard talking points (memes) that
Russians are depressed with life under Putin's tyranny, that they have nothing to live for and that Russia is too poor
to fight HIV.    This BS can be shot down real quick with the fact that alcohol consumption in Russia is now lower than
the lowest it has been in 50 years.    It was low in the late 1980s thanks to Gorbachev's draconian, prohibition style
control of alcohol.   The current low consumption is not associated with control but by change in consumer habits.

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/russian-demographics-in-2018/

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/myths-russia-demography/

According to the lie factory BBC the above is "not true" LOL:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42738511

Yeah, really solid evidence there BBC.   Maybe you should put up a few more meaningless charts that lump different
types of alcohol (beer and vodka) together and assume that there is no change in the partitioning into each type.

kvs wrote:https://www.food-exhibitions.com/Market-Insights/Russia/The-Russian-alcohol-market

Beer and wine are replacing vodka as the largest alcohol products in Russia.    That is, alcohol consumption
in Russia is basically now that of a "normal" country.    The BBC can go and f*ck itself.