Russian beauty contest among HIV-infected girls
"Miss positive-2005" contest dated for the world anti-AIDS day at 1 December is going to be conduct in Russia. HIV-infected girls will be participants of the contest.
"We are trying to put a dent in a human?s perception with that action - these persons can live like other normal people. They can and must live in every society. Persons with hepatitis B and other diseases live that way." - said the main Russian sanitary inspector Gennady Onishchenko.
According to Onishchenko the number of HIV-infected is growing steadily in Russia, 80% of infected are person aged 15-30. About 100 persons get infected daily in Russia.
About 70% of all cases of HIV-infection are concerned with injection drugs usage. 7611 died of AIDS in Russia.
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