Rise of H.I.V. in Russia Is Quickening, Official Says (NY Times)

Russia's top government AIDS expert offered a harrowing assessment of the disease's spread today, saying that at least a half-million Russians now carry the H.I.V. virus and that the true number could range as high as 1.5 million, or more than 1 percent of the overall population, which is about 147 million. More ominous still, he said, foreign experts now say the total number of people infected could surpass seven million -- 1 in every 25 Russians -- in as few as five years.

ドラッグユーザーのHIV感染が頭打ちし、性的感染が増加しつづけているという報告も。このままロシア人口が減りつづけると、国家的な壊滅危機になるかも。