In Israel, again increasing the number of HIV-infected

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In Israel, for the second consecutive year, continued growth in the number of HIV-infected patients.

In 2018, the country has been diagnosed with 425 new cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This is almost 5% more than in 2017 (405 cases), according to the Chronicle.info with reference to the UNN.

The increase is not very large, but the trend is disturbing: if in 2013-2016 the number of new HIV infections reduced, then starting in 2017, it began to rise. Data for the current year will be published only in December.

Many experts say that successful treatment of AIDS (people have not learned to destroy the virus, but managed to strengthen the immune system, making AIDS in fact, in ordinary chronic disease) deprived the people of the fear of this disease, although 30 years ago it was compared to plague.

According to the health Ministry, especially the “relaxed” women: last year in the “beautiful half” of the Israeli population, the number of new infections increased by almost 25% (147 vs 115 in 2017). But the number of new cases among homosexual men (in the past often saragassa AIDS) decreased from 148 to 123.

Among men, traditional orientation, the number of people infected in 2018 was also slightly less than in 2017 283 289 against.

Note: the proportion of immigrants from the former Soviet Union disproportionate among suffering from AIDS in the past year — 38% or 161 people.

The diagnostics division recorded 117 “Sabra” (28%), 61 from Africa, 15 from Asia, 14 from North America, 11 from Western Europe.

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