May 15 - Day of Grief on AIDS victims

May 15, in many countries of the world, including Russia, the World day of memory for victims of AIDS will be marked. The echo of common tragedy has touched Tatarstan as well where since 1987 from the moment of the beginning of HIV registration 544 people died from this infection.

According to experts of the United Nations, in the world it is totaled about 34-36 million people living with diagnosis HIV /AIDS, including over 3 million children. In 87 regions of our country it has been registered 312861 HIV cases. From the beginning of registration of disease in Russia the illness has carried away lives of 7035 HIV -INFECTED, including 318 children. In Tatarstan for today 6 thousand 449 people, out of them 2269 in the capital of republic are standing in the list of physicians with this dangerous diagnosis.