Yesterday the media spread the news that an HIV epidemic had been officially declared in Yekaterinburg. Woman`s Day found out if this is really so.
Since yesterday, all the media have been buzzing about the HIV epidemic in Yekaterinburg. It all started with the words of the first deputy head of the health department of the city administration, Tatyana Savinova. At a press conference, she said that there is an “HIV epidemic” in the Sverdlovsk region. Later she had to justify and explain her words: when more than 1% of the population is infected, this is already very bad, an “epidemic” in colloquial language. But no one officially announced the epidemic. It’s not the flu – masks won’t save you.
Meanwhile, this does not change the essence. The Sverdlovsk Region ranks first in terms of the number of HIV-infected people – almost 2% of the total population, that is, every 50th person. The railway area is in the lead.
Nothing has changed in one day. High rates have been holding for a long time, and last year they were even higher. Perhaps the fact is that our doctors diagnose the population more thoroughly, and the people themselves are more aware of this. According to Savinova, 23% of the population is surveyed in the Sverdlovsk region, and less than 15% in other regions.
So, everyone can get tested for HIV at a mobile point free of charge. It’s anonymous and fast: no names or contacts. They will simply take blood from your finger, the result will be ready in 10 minutes.
ВИЧ – AIDS virus. With an impaired immune system, a person cannot resist infectious diseases, since the protective functions are lost. A person with HIV becomes susceptible even to those microbes that are absolutely not dangerous for a healthy person.
Through the blood. For example, when transfusing infected blood, sharing needles and syringes for injections.
From mother to child… HIV can pass from the mother’s blood to the baby’s blood during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding.
During unprotected intercourse. Wounds on the genitals or in the rectum are sufficient for infection.
Mosquitoes do not tolerate HIV, even if they first bit an infected person, and then a healthy one.
In everyday life, you cannot get infected with the immunodeficiency virus – it quickly breaks down in the air and is not transmitted by airborne droplets.
The virus can also be found in saliva, sweat, or tears, but infection requires several liters of each fluid. Therefore, kissing, sneezing or coughing of an infected person is not dangerous for you.