The Russian Health Ministry has said that all three Russian candidate vaccines against the HIV have passed the first stage of the clinical trial, and the research will continue.(…)
Meanwhile, doctors are alarmed by the spread of the HIV infection in Russia. According to Rospotrebnadzor, a federal consumer rights watchdog, more than 860,000 HIV cases have been registered in Russia, and the figure rises annually by 10%.
Each day, 200 people in Russia are diagnosed with HIV infection, the head of the Federal Center for AIDS Prevention and Treatment, Vadim Pokrovsky, told Interfax earlier.