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Over 50,000 officially registered HIV-infection cases in Moscow
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MOSCOW, September 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow's medical authorities keep
on files over 50,000 HIV-infected cases, including 32,000 Moscow
residents. The others are guests. Migrants are significantly present in
the group.
The chief of the city's health service department Andrei Seltsovsky
told the media this week the HIV-infected growth rate in the city had
eased of late to 8-10 percent a year, which approximately corresponds to
the European level.
"The city's anti-HIV programs largely take the credit for this. The
spread of infection has been slowed down," Seltsovsky said.
Over the past 20 years AIDS killed 4,700 in Moscow. As many patients
are undergoing medical treatment.
"Many HIV-infected receive no medical aid or fail to turn for
systematic assistance. The most frequent type of patient is a down-and-out
reluctant to take any treatment," he explained. "The number of
newly-registered AIDS-stage cases has been on the rise. Here belong drug
and alcohol addicts and other high-risk and problem groups."
Seltsovsky said about half a million Russians were known to have been
infected and "if the disease keeps spreading as fast, the rate may triple
over years."
.Imperfect judiciary to blame for human rights problems - Medvedev.
MOSCOW, September 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia does have human rights
problems and flaws in the judicial system are one of the causes of this,
President Dmitry Medvedev told Swiss media on the eve of his visit to
Switzerland.
"Once we are on the subject of the human rights situation, I must say
it is not quite sterile, of course, human rights abuses are many and they
must be eliminated," he said. "They are so numerous because there is no
effective judiciary system. And it is these institutions that we've got to
develop first and foremost. Also, it is a problem of people's mentality.
Far from all problems that there exist today are being resolved in a legal
way."
"We must reform our judicial system and adjust it to the interests of
our state and, what is still more important, to the interests of our
people," Medvedev said.
In his opinion the judicial system that there exists today does not
open up all opportunities for effective protection, for going through all
instances and achieving a fair solution.
At the same time, it allows for appealing to the human rights court in
Strasbourg rather easily.
"On the one hand, it is good. On the other, it is a disincentive to
bettering our own judicial system," he acknowledged.
"We are to make our own courts work better, and not saddle the
Strasbourg Court with ever more tasks," he said. "I believe that as the
Russian judicial system develops, the number of cases taken to Strasbourg
will dwindle. But if people see no resort other than going there, it is
their right."
Asked about the Russian parliament's refusal to ratify protocol 14 to
the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, which concerns
the reform of the Strasbourg Court, Medvedev said the question should be
addressed not to the president, but to the State Duma and the Federation
Council.
The president had submitted the bill, but "the parliament has turned
it down, because it saw some aspects violating the interests of our
country."
"But that does not mean that the process has been stopped. A number of
positions are being coordinated. We resumed work on this subject and our
counterparts are working on the protocol, too. We are thinking about how
to join that process," Medvedev said.
.Most babies born to HIV parents over 14 yrs in Moscow healthy.
MOSCOW, September 19 (Itar-Tass) -- A total of 5,000 babies have been
born to HIV-infected parents in the Russian capital over the past fourteen
years and 95 percent of them are healthy. At the moment 26 HIV-infected
children are being reared by stepfamilies, the chief of Moscow's health
service department, Andrei Seltsovsky, told the media this week.
Moscow's health service has noted growth in the number of births by
problem mothers - drug addicts and HIV-infected ones. Whereas in 2005
there were 370 of them, in 2008 the rate was up to 509. Last year
HIV-infected mothers gave birth to 507 children, and thirteen newlyborns
tested HIV-positive.
Last year six percent of fertile age women proved to have
gynecological diseases and 1,700 women are on the waiting list for
extracorporeal fertilization.
Seltsovsky said that modern advances in medical care had reduced the
number of babies born with Down syndrome. Whereas in 2004 there were 80
such babies, in 2008 the rate reduced to 50. Last year the number of women
who gave birth to a child after 30 was up by 44 percent as compared with
that in 2004, and that of births after 40, by 3.3 percent.
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MOSCOW, September 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow's medical authorities keep
on files over 50,000 HIV-infected cases, including 32,000 Moscow
residents. The others are guests. Migrants are significantly present in
the group.
The chief of the city's health service department Andrei Seltsovsky
told the media this week the HIV-infected growth rate in the city had
eased of late to 8-10 percent a year, which approximately corresponds to
the European level.
"The city's anti-HIV programs largely take the credit for this. The
spread of infection has been slowed down," Seltsovsky said.
Over the past 20 years AIDS killed 4,700 in Moscow. As many patients
are undergoing medical treatment.
"Many HIV-infected receive no medical aid or fail to turn for
systematic assistance. The most frequent type of patient is a down-and-out
reluctant to take any treatment," he explained. "The number of
newly-registered AIDS-stage cases has been on the rise. Here belong drug
and alcohol addicts and other high-risk and problem groups."
Seltsovsky said about half a million Russians were known to have been
infected and "if the disease keeps spreading as fast, the rate may triple
over years."
.Imperfect judiciary to blame for human rights problems - Medvedev.
MOSCOW, September 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia does have human rights
problems and flaws in the judicial system are one of the causes of this,
President Dmitry Medvedev told Swiss media on the eve of his visit to
Switzerland.
"Once we are on the subject of the human rights situation, I must say
it is not quite sterile, of course, human rights abuses are many and they
must be eliminated," he said. "They are so numerous because there is no
effective judiciary system. And it is these institutions that we've got to
develop first and foremost. Also, it is a problem of people's mentality.
Far from all problems that there exist today are being resolved in a legal
way."
"We must reform our judicial system and adjust it to the interests of
our state and, what is still more important, to the interests of our
people," Medvedev said.
In his opinion the judicial system that there exists today does not
open up all opportunities for effective protection, for going through all
instances and achieving a fair solution.
At the same time, it allows for appealing to the human rights court in
Strasbourg rather easily.
"On the one hand, it is good. On the other, it is a disincentive to
bettering our own judicial system," he acknowledged.
"We are to make our own courts work better, and not saddle the
Strasbourg Court with ever more tasks," he said. "I believe that as the
Russian judicial system develops, the number of cases taken to Strasbourg
will dwindle. But if people see no resort other than going there, it is
their right."
Asked about the Russian parliament's refusal to ratify protocol 14 to
the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, which concerns
the reform of the Strasbourg Court, Medvedev said the question should be
addressed not to the president, but to the State Duma and the Federation
Council.
The president had submitted the bill, but "the parliament has turned
it down, because it saw some aspects violating the interests of our
country."
"But that does not mean that the process has been stopped. A number of
positions are being coordinated. We resumed work on this subject and our
counterparts are working on the protocol, too. We are thinking about how
to join that process," Medvedev said.
.Most babies born to HIV parents over 14 yrs in Moscow healthy.
MOSCOW, September 19 (Itar-Tass) -- A total of 5,000 babies have been
born to HIV-infected parents in the Russian capital over the past fourteen
years and 95 percent of them are healthy. At the moment 26 HIV-infected
children are being reared by stepfamilies, the chief of Moscow's health
service department, Andrei Seltsovsky, told the media this week.
Moscow's health service has noted growth in the number of births by
problem mothers - drug addicts and HIV-infected ones. Whereas in 2005
there were 370 of them, in 2008 the rate was up to 509. Last year
HIV-infected mothers gave birth to 507 children, and thirteen newlyborns
tested HIV-positive.
Last year six percent of fertile age women proved to have
gynecological diseases and 1,700 women are on the waiting list for
extracorporeal fertilization.
Seltsovsky said that modern advances in medical care had reduced the
number of babies born with Down syndrome. Whereas in 2004 there were 80
such babies, in 2008 the rate reduced to 50. Last year the number of women
who gave birth to a child after 30 was up by 44 percent as compared with
that in 2004, and that of births after 40, by 3.3 percent.
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