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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

Living on the Verge of the AIDS

8 December, 1998 - 00:00

The statistics are deadly. In Ukraine, the HIV infection rate for 100,000
people is several times higher than in other CIS countries.

As reported by the Ukrainian AIDS center, Ukraine currently has 22,494
persons including 603 children registered as HIV-infected. 247 adults and
24 children have already died. The HIV has mostly affected Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk,
Odesa, Mykolayiv, Cherkasy, and Luhansk oblasts, as well as in the Crimea
and Kyiv. According to a UN study, the situation in Ukraine is the most
serious in Eastern Europe. The number of new cases registered in the last
three years here is four times the total for the rest of Eastern Europe.
The majority of the HIV-infected are at 24 years or younger. The number
of children born to HIV-infected mothers is also rising.

UNAIDS, the World Health Organization, and World Bank have decided to
draw young into their current campaign to combat AIDS, under the motto,
"The source of change: young people in the worldwide AIDS campaign" This
same motto was used for last week's round table devoted to World AIDS Day
(December 1) and organized by the Ukrainian Health Ministry, Hromashevsky
Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, and the Ukrainian Center
for AIDS Prevention and Control.

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