Why HIV rates among Russian soldiers are soaring
Russia’s armed forces have suffered a surge of HIV infections during the war in Ukraine, which has been attributed to fatalistic soldiers having unprotected sex and using drugs.
The number of HIV cases in the military has shot up since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, including a fivefold increase by autumn that year.
By the end of 2023, there were 20 times more HIV diagnoses among Russian soldiers compared with before the war.
These high transmission rates show “HIV is not just passed on in war through wounds and their treatment”, a report in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Centre said.
Unprotected sex and sharing needles to inject drugs are “thriving in a fighting army of men who live every day as if it were their last”.
Russia has long battled with high rates of HIV among the general population; it ranks among the top five countries with the highest rates of infections.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-uk...-r3p79s35l
Russia’s armed forces have suffered a surge of HIV infections during the war in Ukraine, which has been attributed to fatalistic soldiers having unprotected sex and using drugs.
The number of HIV cases in the military has shot up since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, including a fivefold increase by autumn that year.
By the end of 2023, there were 20 times more HIV diagnoses among Russian soldiers compared with before the war.
These high transmission rates show “HIV is not just passed on in war through wounds and their treatment”, a report in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Centre said.
Unprotected sex and sharing needles to inject drugs are “thriving in a fighting army of men who live every day as if it were their last”.
Russia has long battled with high rates of HIV among the general population; it ranks among the top five countries with the highest rates of infections.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-uk...-r3p79s35l
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