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World demographic barometer

The HIV epidemic: estimates and trends, 2018

• The global HIV epidemic could be stopped by 2030

• Compared to 2010, the number of new HIV infections in the whole world has decreased by 18%, the number of deaths due to AIDS-related diseases - by 34%

• Two thirds of HIV-infected people are between the ages of 25-49 years old, the proportion of young people aged 15-24 years old among people living with HIV is decreasing, the proportion of people 50 years and older is increasing

• Half of new HIV infections are registered in people aged 25–49, one third in young people aged 15–24.

Take care of women!

• How many people in Russia are HIV-positive?

• HIV-positive people among us

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural decrease of Russia over 9 months was 173,400 people

• Golikova names main condition for increasing fertility in Russia

• Are wage arrears in Russia greater than Rosstat data show?

• Russians need at least 10 minimum wages per month to be happy

• The highest salaries in Russia are paid to residents of the YNAO and Chukotka

• Ministry of Labor will try experiment to reduce poverty

• Poorly planned optimization has harmed health and education

• The World Bank considers Putin's May Decrees unfeasible

• Medvedev supports adoption of federal law on large families

• Disabled pre-pensioners will be supported by their children

• Interior Ministry decides to reduce workload of local police officers

• Russian women on maternity leave will be taught new professions for free

• Interior Ministry proposes to accelerate issuance of passports to citizens

• Foreigners will be allowed to enter Russia on a Belarusian visa

• State Duma studying the possibility of Ukrainians obtaining Russian citizenship without renouncing their own

• Interior Ministry proposes to make residence permit permanent

• Tatyana Golikova speaks about the need for migrants

• One in three foreign students in Russia studies for free

• Russia facing an “African scenario” HIV epidemic

• The number of people with HIV aged 50–60 years is growing in Russia

• More than one in two persons with HIV in Europe is a Russian

• Ministry of Health denies data showing that HIV is spreading fastest in the Russian Federation

• Federal Anti-monopoly Service approves labelling bottles with warnings on the dangers of alcohol

• The government will double funding for cancer treatment

• The number of children with disabilities has increased in Russia

• Ministry of Labor promises to simplify disability application procedure

• Tatyana Golikova is for a healthy lifestyle

• Health of residents of the Russian Federation will be selectively checked every year

• More than 22,000 Muscovites have had a free mammography

• Ministry of Health creates multidisciplinary teams in the regions

• Russia to reconsider prices on vital medicines

• Average age of Sberbank telemedicine clients is 36 years

• Special department to be created in Investigative Committee to investigate medical errors

World news

• Life expectancy in the United States continues to decline

• Tymoshenko tells of "mass stampede" of the population from Ukraine

• Ukrainian villages have lost up to half a million people

• Investors scared off by rapid pace of Ukraine’s population decline

• Ukraine border service sets conditions for letting in male Russian citizens under 60

• Russia amnesties Moldovan migrants violating terms of stay

• In Ukraine, about 8,500 gypsies have received passports

• Bulgaria is promised to be taken into Schengen zone in spring 2019

• Migration issue has split Eastern and Western Europe

• Does the UN Migration Pact commit states to anything?

• European Commission urges countries refusing migration pact to "change their mind"

• Switzerland postpones decision on UN Global Migration Pact

• Italian President signs decree restricting migration

• Hillary Clinton warns of the danger of migration for the European Union

• 3.3% of the US population are illegal migrants

• Trump threatens to close the border with Mexico

• "Migrant Caravan" intends to force its way into US

• Most Polish companies want to hire foreigners.

• Nearly two million Ukrainian citizens work in Poland

• Kirgiz President calls for expanding manufacturing to reduce migration

• Most migrant workers from Kirgizia come from its southern regions

• 70% of new HIV cases in Europe occur in men

• Beijing records fewer new HIV/AIDS cases

• Young people in Kazakhstan are poorly informed about HIV

• France will be handing out condoms for free

• World’s first genetically modified children born in China

The newspapers write about…

• “Novaya Gazeta” and “Ekonomika Sevodnya” on national projects and the May decrees

• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" on obtaining Russian citizenship

• "The Independent" and "La Jornada" on the migration crisis in America

• “Delfi.lv” and “Le Figaro” on the global migration pact

• "InoSMI" on migrant criminals in Europe

• "Delfi.lv" on Latvian repatriates

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the educational migration of Kazakhs

• “Zhenmin zhibao” on reviving the village

• “Vsemirnaya sluzhba BBC”, Novye Izvestiya”, “Suomen Kuvalehti” and “Izvestiya” on HIV

• “Focus” on antibiotics

• “Izvestiya” on cadres to fight cancer

• "Komsomolskaya Pravda" on Jeanne Calment

• “Israel Hayom” on domestic violence

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the shortage of grandmothers

• "The American Conservative" on the extinction of Europe

• “MIT Technology Review” and “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on genetically modified children

• "Neue Zurcher Zeitung" on sex

• "Slate.fr" on the initiative to tighten abortion law in Poland

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the ombudsman’s position concerning female circumcision

• “Bloomberg” on poverty in the US

• "Forbes" on teleworking

• “Ekho Moskvy” on a basic income in Russia

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on lessons in tolerance

Read books and magazines

• HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2018

• Global AIDS Monitoring 2018

• Medicine in literature

• Women and men of Kazakhstan 2013-2017

• Qualitative research in European migration studies

• Through the pages of the journals “Voprosy Statistiki” ("Issues in Statistics") and “Uroven zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossii” ("The standard of living of the population of the regions of Russia")

• Contents of the “Journal of International Migration and Integration”

Book anniversary

• 80 years since publication of B.T. Urlanis’ book "History of the American Census"

The reading room

• Population of Russia 2016. Twenty-fourth annual demographic report

Profession: researcher

• International courses in "Population and Development" programs

• 10 years since the death of John Hajnal

Students’ page

• Opportunities at the HSE. Meeting of the student society "Demographer"

• Useful information from the student society "Demographer"