MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's chief doctor Gennady Onishchenko said Monday that over 350,000 people in Russia were infected with HIV.
"The dynamics of the spread of HIV start with the first registered case in Russia in 1987," he told a European and Central Asian AIDS conference in Moscow. "Today more than 351,000 people are infected with HIV in Russia."
Onishchenko said the number of infected Russian per 100,000 now stood at 200 people, echoing comments made in late April by Vadim Pokrovsky, the head of Russia's federal AIDS research center, who said the figure had reached 225.1 as compared with 200.7 in 2004.
