Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 10 – Moscow continues to report progress in reducing the number of HIV/AIDS cases in the Russian Federation, but the government’s statistical arm, Rosstat, hasn’t published monthly figures for the federal subjects since February 2024, making it difficult to confirm claims of an improvement in the situation.
But the independent Takiye Dela portal has been able to find data for some regions and republics; and what it has found both calls into question official Russian government claims and suggests that HIV infections may in fact be spreading in many places already and could spread to others in the near future (takiedela.ru/notes/vich-v-regionakh/).
The portal reports tat there have been double digit increases this year in the number of HIV infections in Khakasia, Komi, Magadan, and Buryatia, with the situation in the last being described as “critical.” One reason for this suggestion is that 15 percent of the latest group of men from there who’ve signed contracts with the Russian military are infected with HIV.
This contingent and those from other places with high HIV infection rates are likely to contribute to the already serious situation in the Russian military now fighting in Ukraine and whose veterans are returning to places throughout the Russian Federation (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/08/veterans-of-putins-war-in-ukraine.html).
In most of these places, there is a shortage of retroviral drugs and even testing to determine who is infected, problems than have led people in them to complain to the Patient Control organization which tracks treatment of diseases in Russia that they can’t get help or even get checked for the disease.
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