Pretorian wrote:Evgeny, you are not the brightest lamp on the street unfortunatly. Frankthetank didnt say Russian women are ugly or stupid; he said they are full of STDs. Being young and good at chess does not prove STD-free status.
Jokes aside, why all Russians you bring up here as a national treasure have Ukrainian second names?
From 1985 to 1999, the proportion of all U.S. AIDS cases which were reported in women increased from 7 percent to 23 percent.
403,000 HIV infections had been detected in Russia since the appearance of the virus in the former Soviet Union in 1987. Those still living number 314,000.
The United States of America accounts for an estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV
The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials are expected to report Sunday, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.
The country had roughly 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 - a dramatic increase from the 40,000 annual estimate used for the last dozen years. The new figure is due to a better blood test and new statistical methods, and not a worsening of the epidemic, officials said.
But it likely will refocus U.S. attention from the effect of AIDS overseas to what the disease is doing to this country, said public health researchers and officials.
"This is the biggest news for public health and HIV/AIDS that we've had in a while," said Julie Scofield, executive director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors.
The revised estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the methodology behind it were to be presented Sunday, the opening day of the international AIDS conference in Mexico City.
"We do have an epidemic in the United States - an epidemic that is more than 50,000, ravaging gay and minority communities," Dr. Kevin Fenton of the CDC told CBS News.