Here is a regular column: "Scientist rapes a journalist." In TG they jump the same kind of news at the level of "HIV epidemic has spread to almost 30 regions of Russia and exceeded risk groups", in which, referring to Rospotrabendzor, they write that it is a coffin-coffin-cemetery and in the third world in general. The basis for the hype was an article from Medusnik (a major specialist magazine) that suddenly appeared on the Internet a week ago, stating that "despite the decrease in HIV morbidity and mortality observed in recent years in Russia, the population of infected people continues to grow." At the same time, the original article was written in a fairly calm tone, but it had one typo that caused the media to get overly excited. What is the text of the article actually about? Yes, in principle, it highlights a well-known fact: the HIV epidemic has not disappeared and although this diagnosis is no longer a death sentence, it does not make it any easier. The average age of those infected in Russia has increased in the last 15 years from 32 to 44 years. This, on the one hand, is good (lives are infected until a fairly advanced age), but on the other hand, it leads to the fact that the number of potential spreaders of the virus only increases every year. Actually, again, quote from the text: "For every death, there are 1.5 new cases of infection. Thus, among men aged 40-49, more than 3% of the population are affected by the virus. And that seems like a lot. On the one hand, 15 years ago, it is likely that a person infected with HIV would not live to the age of 49, but on the other hand, now (quote again) “HIV infection has taken the first place among the causes of death among Russians of working age. " And here lies the insidious typo: the sentence was omitted that HIV is not only in the first place among all causes of death, but especially in the class "infectious and parasitic diseases". Overall, HIV accounts for about 3.4% of deaths (generally, both as an indirect cause and as a major cause of death).

Here is a regular column: "Scientist rapes a journalist." In TG they jump the same kind of news at the level of "HIV epidemic has spread to almost 30 regions of Russia and exceeded risk groups", in which, referring to Rospotrabendzor, they write that it is a coffin-coffin-cemetery and in the third world in general. The basis for the hype was an article from Medusnik (a major specialist magazine) that suddenly appeared on the Internet a week ago, stating that "despite the decrease in HIV morbidity and mortality observed in recent years in Russia, the population of infected people continues to grow." At the same time, the original article was written in a fairly calm tone, but it had one typo that caused the media to get overly excited. What is the text of the article actually about? Yes, in principle, it highlights a well-known fact: the HIV epidemic has not disappeared and although this diagnosis is no longer a death sentence, it does not make it any easier. The average age of those infected in Russia has increased in the last 15 years from 32 to 44 years. This, on the one hand, is good (lives are infected until a fairly advanced age), but on the other hand, it leads to the fact that the number of potential spreaders of the virus only increases every year. Actually, again, quote from the text: "For every death, there are 1.5 new cases of infection. Thus, among men aged 40-49, more than 3% of the population are affected by the virus. And that seems like a lot. On the one hand, 15 years ago, it is likely that a person infected with HIV would not live to the age of 49, but on the other hand, now (quote again) “HIV infection has taken the first place among the causes of death among Russians of working age. " And here lies the insidious typo: the sentence was omitted that HIV is not only in the first place among all causes of death, but especially in the class "infectious and parasitic diseases". Overall, HIV accounts for about 3.4% of deaths (generally, both as an indirect cause and as a major cause of death).