THE FEATURES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIV INFECTION EPIDEMIC IN THE CHELYABINSK REGION
The spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Russia is the most significant social problem and it is not only a medical phenomenon, but also a social and psychological one. Nowadays Russia occupies a leading place in the growth rates of the HIV epidemic in the world. According to the data of the Federal Research Methodology Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, 798 866 cases of HIV infection were notified in the country by the end of 2013 and an annual increase is observed in new case detection rates. The current situation with HIV infection has reached a critical point when it may be switched to a generalized stage, on the one hand, and an opportunity to stabilize the situation has not yet missed, on the other.