In Crimea the rate of HIV-infections is half as much than in the regions of the Russian Federation at the average. The head of Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare) of the Russian Federation Anna Popova informed about that on Monday, March 30.
“There are problems related to HIV-infection (in Crimea), where the disease incidence is half as much than in Russia at the average,” she said during the meeting of the government commission for emergency prevention and response devoted to the subject “On future development of the territorial subsystem of the Russian System of Prevention and Response to ES in Crimean Federal District.”
Popova noted that 15 territorial departments of Rospotrebnadzor, the Sanitary Center with laboratories and its 14 branches have been created and now operate in Crimea and Sevastopol, also the Crimean Plague Control Station of Rospotrebnadzor started to work.
According to Popova, all these structures are designed to provide control over the quality of drinking water on the peninsula during the summer season among other things.
