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
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?
It’s spreading like wild fire among heterosexual young folks in the US.
