Igonina attributed the infections mainly to violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules, including the use of the same catheters and glucometers for multiple patients.
I was going to guess drug use. How fucked is it that you go for medical treatment and end up with HIV?
catheters… multiple patients
Holy fuck I cannot vote for more health care funding fast enough
I’m not sure you get to vote for more health care funding in Russia…
I mean, you can vote, it just doesn’t matter.
If by healthcare you mean a corner office on the 8th floor… you can
Last I heard Russia did have the highest incidence of heroin usage in Europe, so that’s likely a factor.
Likely not many needle exchanges there. But if it was from intravenous drug use, one would expect hepatitis c to be even higher, as it is here in the US with such addicts. Especially the ones of the older generations, like 60s to 70 years old now or so.
As the old Russian proverb goes, life is hard, but thankfully it is also short.
3% seems really high. South Africa and other areas are way way higher though.
Soon to be the USA too.
Why do you say that?
u/Blibittyblah is moving to the USA
I don’t want to live with you, lol
are you sure? i am man in the 40-50 age group, basically your target
I mean in America, with you.
What about in America, with me?
Not for a million dollars.
They say it because there always has to be an obligatory “Whatabout USA” in any thread about problems in other countries.
Not to say that there aren’t still concerns in the US, though, with the politicization of disease and healthcare in a state of near collapse. It just has little to do with the article above.
Ah, guess I just don’t get out in the !world@quokk.au enough.
It’s spreading like wild fire among heterosexual young folks in the US.
So I want to push back on that.
In the CDC’s 2026 report (leaning on 2024 data) there looks be to be a definite upswing of cases in the US, but there was ~38.8k new cases reported with 65% linked to “persons with HIV attributed to male-to-male sexual contact”. That leaves ~13.5k cases that’d be attributed to all other spread vectors, or an overall spread of 0.0397 per 100,000 (assuming a US population of 342 million) amongst non-MMSC infected.
For Russia, I can’t find the data broken out (at least not in an English language article), but to make sure I’m doing an apples to apples comparison in next block, that’s an overall spread of 0.113 per 100k for US.
According to Wikipedia, “by the beginning of the 21st century” Russia’s spread of HIV hit 157 cases per 100k people. Article also says “The HIV incidence rate increased from 187.3 to 472 cases per 100,000 people between 2007 and 2017”, but that feels…absurdly high. I want to say that’s for a specific region, but it is, its not clear which region it involves.
Point is, we appear to be looking at a 3+ order of magnitude difference between the spread in U.S. vs Russia. Additionally, it looks like Russia’s spread is primarily due to contaminated needles when doing drugs - don’t want to speculate too hard when I’m not an expert on the matter, but that speaks to a national “moral” problem to me (at least that is orders of magnitude worse than in U.S.).
I’m def bothered by the best sources I can dredge up coming from Wikipedia (I’ve always found it to be directionally correct, though often glossing over finer points which then leads me to wrong conclusions); which is to say, if you can point me to some better / more directly sourced (preferably English language) data on the matter, I’d be very interested to look it over.
