OREANDA-NEWS  In January 2023, Russia noted a sharp surge in infectious diseases, including HIV, hepatitis and syphilis. This was reported by Medvestnik, referring to Rosstat data and Rospotrebnadzor reports.

It is emphasized that the incidence of newly diagnosed tuberculosis increased by 10 percent, HIV — by 20 percent, gonococcal infection — by 19 percent by January 2022.

Half of the detected cases of HIV infection occurred in 13 regions: Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar and Perm Territories, St. Petersburg, Kemerovo, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Rostov, Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions, the publication reports with reference to the agency.

At the same time, the incidence of acute hepatitis has sharply increased in Russia (plus 45 percent). Especially — hepatitis A. In a month, about 300 people fell ill with it (an increase of one and a half times) and hepatitis C — plus 42 percent, about 100 people. The incidence of hepatitis B increased by 11 percent. Syphilis in Russia sickened at least 2.6 thousand people.

On March 31, Oleg Apolikhin, urologist, director of the Lopatkin Research Institute of Urology and Interventional Radiology, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that the risk of contracting venereal disease increases during menstruation and defloration.

According to the specialist, in the vast majority of cases, infection with sexually transmitted diseases occurs through semen, blood or secretions from the genitals during sexual contact with an infected partner.

He also noted that the disease does not manifest itself immediately, for some time the causative agent of the disease remains at rest, while adapting to the conditions of the human body. The only reliable way to detect it is through tests.