Annual financial losses from the spread of HIV in Russia amount to about 200 billion rubles. This is the conclusion reached by the Scientific Research Financial Institute of the Ministry of Finance of Russia (NFI), a copy of the study is at the disposal of the editorial board of “Lenta.ru”.
Analysts pointed out that most of the losses – about 150 billion rubles – fall on GDP losses due to disability and premature mortality of the population from the consequences of HIV. “With successful control of HIV infection, the annual birth rate would increase by 6.2 thousand people,” the study says.
In addition, the NFI of the Ministry of Finance believes that if the costs of purchasing antiretroviral drugs and HIV testing are increased by about 60 percent, this will allow in the future to reduce direct non-medical costs by more than 100 billion rubles. In addition, the overall reduction in indirect GDP losses will amount to about 1.7 trillion rubles by 2030.
According to Rospotrebnadzor, today HIV is one of the most common infectious diseases. In Russia, according to official figures, 1.1 million people live with him.
The leading region in terms of morbidity is now the Kemerovo region. If the average Russian level is 40.77 per 100 thousand of the population. In the Kemerovo region in 2020, this figure was 128.92 per 100 thousand of the population. Moreover, in recent years, HIV has been more often registered in older age groups. In 2020, the proportion of patients with newly diagnosed disease over 30 years old was 85.3 percent.
In December 2020, the Russian authorities approved the state strategy to counter the spread of HIV infection in the country until 2030. The Ministry of Health was instructed to submit to the government an action plan for the implementation of these plans in six months.