On the data of the Ukrainian AIDS Center, since 1987 there have been registered 87,159 cases of HIV in Ukraine (last updated: December 2005). 12,622 people have AIDS and 7,278 people have already died of this disease.

Review of the HIV/AIDS situation in Ukraine as of 01.07.2005.

Starting from 1995 HIV/AIDS epidemic was spreading mostly among IDUs and their sex partners. Nowadays number of new HIV cases among women is rising dramatically. Partly, the reason for such shift might be explained by increasing figures in the heterosexual way of HIV transmission. Indeed, recent...