HIV/AIDS in Ukraine

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine is one of the fastest-growing epidemics in the world.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Ukraine has one of the highest rates of increase of HIV/AIDS cases in Eastern Europe[7] and highest HIV prevalence outside Africa.[8] Experts estimated in August 2010 that 1.3 percent of the adult population of Ukraine was infected with HIV, the highest in all of Europe.[9][10] Late 2011 Ukraine numbered 360,000 HIV-positive persons (increase in the rate close to zero compared with 2010).[10] Between 1987 and late 2012 27,800 Ukrainians died of AIDS.[1] In 2012 tests revealed 57 new cases of HIV positive Ukrainians each day and 11 daily AIDS-related deaths (on a population of roughly 45 million at the time).[1][11]

Identified in the Ukrainian SSR in 1987,[1] HIV/AIDS appeared to be confined to a small population until the mid-1990s, when a sudden and explosive epidemic emerged among injecting drug users and prostitutes against the background of severe economic crisis and collapse of social healthcare system.[12] According to data reported in 2015 the epidemic is still on the rise, but it doesn't limit itself by a small group of drug users and appears to be accelerated within all parts of Ukrainian population with growing numbers of infected women.[13] Ukraine has one of the highest rates of increase of HIV/AIDS cases in Eastern Europe[7] and highest adult HIV prevalence outside Africa.[8]

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  10. ^ a b On World AIDS Day, a dose of good news, Kyiv Post (1 December 2011)
  11. ^ Ukraine, CIA Factbook (page last updated on November 14, 2012)
  12. ^ HIV/AIDS : global frontiers in prevention/intervention. Pope, Cynthia., White, Renée T., Malow, Robert. New York: Routledge. 2009. ISBN 9780415953825. OCLC 190751460.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ^ Platt, Lucy (2015). "Case Study: United Kingdom and Ukraine". HIV Epidemics in the European Region: Vulnerability and Response. World Bank. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-1-4648-0388-8.