Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 14:13:56 +0200 (MSZ)
From: Bj|rn Skolander <Bjorn.Skolander@nordiska.uu.se>


NEW AIDS DATA. According to Health Ministry official Aleksandr Golyusov,
967 people including 277 children, are now registered as HIV-positive in
Russia. He added that 176 people have full-blown AIDS and that 154
people have died of the disease, Vechernyaya Moskva reported on 3
August. AIDS activists argue that the official figures should be
multiplied by at least a factor of 10 to obtain a true picture of HIV in
the country. Implementation of a new law mandating HIV tests for all
foreigners coming to Russia for longer than three months, which was
scheduled to take effect on 1 August, has been delayed for procedural
reasons. -- Penny Morvant, OMRI, Inc.

OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 152, Part I, 7 August 1995