HIV/Aids:

• Russia & Ukraine have the highest current growth rates of HIV infection in the world.
  
• In order to stop the bad publicity about HIV/Aids in Russia, the government stopped the funding for test kits in 2003 to reduce the number of reported cases. Even with a lack of testing ability, the number of cases in Russia doubles every 12 months.
• HIV/Aids is growing faster in Russia than it did when first discovered in Africa.
  
• At the current rate of 5-10 million Russians will contract HIV by 2010; 1,000,000 will die before the end of the current decade.