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Current topic: HIV in Russia today

• HIV in the world

• Russia in the global context

• In 20 regions of the country over 0.5% of the population infected with HIV

• Among men aged 30-34 2.5% are infected with HIV

• The main risk factor is sharing narcotics injection equipment

• Coverage of HIV testing in Russia is high, but is on the decrease

• Timely initiation of treatment reduces mortality and disability

• Thanks to treatment, mortality among HIV patients has been cut in half

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

• HIV epidemic : estimates and trends, 2014

• Growth of the global HIV epidemic has slowed, but for the years 1990-2012 35 million people died worldwide due to, AIDS-related illness

• Of those infected with HIV about 10 % are children under the age of 15, while  about 18 million children have been left orphans because of AIDS

• About 70 % of those infected with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa

• The HIV epidemic continues to spread rapidly in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East

• In 2012, antiretroviral drugs were received by 61% of people needing them

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The epidemiological situation of tuberculosis and HIV infection in the Russian Federation

• The epidemiology of tuberculosis in combination with HIV infection

• Socio-demographic and behavioral characteristics of drug users and an estimate of their numbers in cities of the Northwest Federal District

• The health of migrant workers in Russia

• Epidemiological risk factors in relation to labor migration

Take care of women!

• Publication of global estimates of maternal mortality

Reader correspondence

• On undercounting the population in the 1937 census

In the vastness of Russia

• Demographic policy of the Russian Federation has given good results

• Life expectancy in Russia should be increased to 74 years

• Fertility in Russia may decline in the coming years

• By 2015 the number of HIV-positive Russians could reach 1 million people

• Russians are drinking less, but the situation still needs to be controlled

• Trade unions propose to mitigate antismoking norms regarding smoking at work

• Vaccination against pneumococcal disease has been officially included in the immunization schedule

• By 2018 90% of pharmaceuticals in Russia should be produced by Russian manufacturers

• Retirement age for women in the Crimea will be lowered as of January 2015

• Bill on pensions for residents of Crimea has been submitted to the Duma

• Deadline for entry into state program of co-financing of pensions may be extended

• Level of payouts to veterans has been increased twice over last four years

• “Dima Yakovlev Law” will be applied to Crimea and Sebastopol

• Russians adopting children more often

• Spending maternity capital for rehabilitation of children with disabilities may be allowed

• In Russia, nationality doesn’t matter when being hired

• Over 73 thousand people who acquired citizenship of the Russian Federation in 2013-2014 have another passport

• Obliging people to report second citizenship not recognized by the Russian Federation is absurd

• Public Chamber suggests not punishing Russians for failing to report second citizenship they didn’t know about

• Bashkiria’s parliamentarians propose to tighten immigration laws

• Program for resettling compatriots in the Russian Federation is not being carried out in the best way

• Migrants should be tested on their qualifications

• Should employers provide migrants with health insurance?

• Employers will be encouraged to teach migrants Russian

• Ban on surrogacy should be discussed with experts

• Patient advocate league calls for return of Soviet health care system

Eurasian panorama

• Population of Kazakhstan increased by 60 thousand people in 2014

• Mortality in Moldova for the year decreased by 3.8%

• Total fertility rate in Armenia is below replacement rate

• In Belarus, a decrease in the percentage of children born out of wedlock

• Over 8 million inhabitants of Belarus have family ties

• Moldova starts population and housing census

• Romania agitating residents of Moldova to call themselves “Romanians” in the census

• Incomes in Azerbaijan have risen by 5%

• Wealthy families make up 5.2% of the total number of families in Azerbaijan

• In Belarus, average pension for disabled veterans of Great Patriotic War is 1.7 times higher than average old-age pension

• Armenian parliament approves amendments on law “On Funded Pensions”

• Belarus to provide support for those adopting children over 3 years old

• In Kirgizia, unemployment rate exceeds 8%

• Unemployment in Belarus remains at 0.5%

• In Moldova, still a shortage of doctors and seamstresses

• Armenians from Syria will receive Armenian passports for free

• Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada adopts laws liberalizing visa regime with EU

• Kazakhstan identifies regions for settling ethnic Kazakh returnees

• Chinese nationals in Kazakhstan are allocated land for lease

• Russia will not deliberately repatriate Moldovan labor migrants

• Moldova adopts plan of action to support returning migrant workers

• Moldovan authorities intend to replace Russian with English in schools

• Ukraine’s priorities are decentralization, minority rights and the status of the Russian language

• Yatseniuk promises local councils the right to grant official status to the Russian language

• Over 80% of those infected with HIV in Moldova are aged between 15 and 39

• Belarus registers 16,315 cases of HIV infection

• 111 new HIV cases registered in Armenia

• Armenia is one of the most “sober” countries in the region

• For one week women in each region of Belarus will be refused abortions

• Around 70 residents of Belarus have changed their sex in the last 20 years

World news

• World sees simultaneous outbreak of four viruses causing grave illnesses

• New coronavirus reaches Netherlands

• UNICEF warns of rapid spread of cholera in Southern Sudan

• Was the “black death” good for the health of Europeans?

• Death toll from floods in the Balkans reaches 45 people

• Latvian President calls for increase of salaries

• In referendum, Swiss vote no to introducing a minimum wage

• In some countries the economic crisis has had a positive impact on the size of social payments

• Humanitarian aid is not reaching up to a third of Syrians in need

• Children in U.S. working up to 12 hours a day in tobacco fields

• ObamaCare accused of creating senseless jobs

• Estonian government refuses to simplify granting of citizenship

• In Lithuania, fight begins against fictive marriage

• Thailand to tighten immigration rules for foreigners

• Jews leaving France because of anti-Semitism and economic crisis

• In 2013 the number of illegal migrants in the EU dramatically increased

• 26,000 illegal migrants have arrived in Italy since the start of the year

• More than 100,000 people have become refugees in northeastern Syria

• Latvia to study the mood of its Russian-speaking population

• In Latvia, the number of abortions is down

• Short men are more likely to live long

• Is it dangerous to replace ‘father’ and ‘mother’ with ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent 2’?

• In Estonia, the frequency of domestic violence against women has increased

The newspapers write about…

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the problem of AIDS in Russia

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on alcohol, drugs and the problems of diagnosing the causes of death

• “Kommersant” on the problems of substitution therapy in the Donetsk region

• “Independent” on alcohol consumption

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on death from alcohol in Russia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the fight against alcoholization in Belarus

• “Dengi” on the problem of smoking in Russia

• “Gazeta.ru” on a possible increase in mortality in Russia

• “Naked-science.ru” on the weekly rhythm of mortality in hospitals

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on increased life expectancy in the world

• “Kommersant” on life expectancy in Russia

• “Umj.com.ua” on the link between health and life expectancy

• “Umj.com.ua” on morbidity and disability in adolescents

• “Novaya Gazeta” on the demographic situation in Russia as seen through the eyes of the head of Rosstat

• “Kommersant” on the concept of family policy until the year 2025

• “Helsingin Sanomat” on countries comfortable for motherhood

• “Kommersant” on migrant in OECD countries

• “Vedomosti” on the brain drain in the U.S.

• “Ekspert Ural” on why so many Russians want to emigrate

• “Izvestiya” on teaching migrants Russian in the workplace

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the problems of migrant children in St. Petersburg

• “The Atlantic” on racial tension in the USA

• “The National Interest” on the oppression of Chinese in southeast Asia

• “Haaretz” on Israeli nationality

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the Ministry of Regional Development and the Ministry of Nationalities

• “Gazeta.ru” on dual and “dormant” citizenship

• “El Pais” on Latvian non-citizens

• “OMEGA” on the features of the census in Moldova

• “Russian-bazaar.com” on the natural increase of Latinos in the U.S.

• “Chas” on the impact of aging on the economy

• “Kommersant” on the crisis and unemployment

• “Project Syndicate” on inequality

• “Kommersant” on forced labor

• “Haaretz” on the benefits of serving in the Israeli army

• “Mardom salari” on sexual problems of Iranian youth

• “Ogonyok” on therapeutic cloning and bioethics

• “Sitibum” on the budget and the labor market in Moscow

Read books and magazines

• Annual epidemiological report 2013

• Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe

• The ethno-political situation in Russia and neighboring countries in 2012

• Social trends of the Kirgiz Republic: 2008-2012

• Through the pages of the magazines “Gigiena i Sanitariya” (“Hygiene and Sanitation”) and “Vestnik MGU. Seriya 6. Ekonomika” (“Moscow State University Bulletin, series 6.  Economics”)

• Contents of the journal “Studies in Family Planning”

Profession: researcher

• Young scientists on demographic problems.  Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• Vladimir Nikolaevich Arkhangelsky turns 60

Students’ page

• On the Master’s in Demography

Satirical column

• The bird-troika of Russian life expectancy