BBC Monitoring International Reports via NewsEdge Corporation : 07/13/2001
Text of report by Ukrainian news agency UNIAN

Kiev, 13 July: A total of 39,127 HIV-infected citizens of Ukraine and 291 foreign citizens have been officially registered since 1987, the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported, quoting figures as of 1 July.

A news conference at the Health Ministry was told that HIV-infected Ukrainian citizens include 2,331 children, while 2,295 adults and 70 children have developed full-blown AIDS. Since the start of the epidemic, 1,106 adults and 50 children have died of AIDS. Intravenous drug users form the majority of HIV patients at 28,537.

As many as 2,527 HIV-positive cases including 306 children were recorded in Ukraine in the six months of this year. In addition, 318 adults and eight children were diagnosed with AIDS, and 151 adults and five children died. The HIV-positive cases include 1,537 intravenous drug users.

Ukraine's worst-affected regions are Donetsk Region - 8,780 cases, Dnipropetrovsk Region - 7,502, Odessa Region - 6,303, Mykolayiv Region - 2,690, Crimea - 2,494, Zaporizhzhya Region - 1,125, Kharkiv Region - 1,053, Luhansk Region - 943, Cherkasy Region - 950, Kiev - 1,340 and Sevastopol - 538. Intravenous infection prevails, hitting an overwhelming majority of individuals between 20 and 30, while there has been a consistent increase in HIV cases among teenagers.

Heterosexual transmission is on the rise in certain regions, particularly in Crimea and in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Odessa Regions.

Source: UNIAN news agency, Kiev, in Ukrainian 1120 gmt 13 Jul 01

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