Open AccessCharacteristics of the epidemic process and the leading risk factors for HIV infection in conditions of a large metropolis
Author(s) -
Vitaliy V. Naumenko,
Т. В. Сологуб,
V. V Tsvetkov,
Л. М. Цыбалова
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
èpidemiologiâ i infekcionnye bolezni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-3026
pISSN - 1560-9529
DOI - 10.17816/eid40870
Subject(s) - tuberculosis , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , population , demography , epidemiology , cohort , incidence (geometry) , russian federation , environmental health , geography , virology , physics , pathology , regional science , sociology , optics
The HIV epidemic has been going on for nearly thirty years, it is a heterogeneous, dynamic and highly resistant to countermeasures. The Leningrad Region and the city of St. Petersburg today are referred to the most affected regions of the Russian Federation, as nearly 1% of the population of this city has HIVpositive status. Despite the decline in the HIV infection incidence of the resident population of the Central District, the epidemiological situation for HIV infection remains to be tense, due to the increase in the cumulative number of HIV-infected and AIDS patients, the increase ofthe morbidity rate and mortality in co-infected patients with HIV/tuberculosis, activation of the output of the epidemic in vulnerable groups into the general population. At the same time, a cohort of HIV-infected patients with a high risk of late detection of tuberculosis continues to form