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| | Rapid Increase in HIV Rates --- Orel Oblast, Russian Federation, 1999--2001 |
 | | During 1997--2000, HIV seroprevalence reportedly increased 33-fold in Orel Oblast, a predominantly rural, agricultural province (1999 population: 900,000) in central European Russia (Figure) (4). |
 | | Rates of prevalence of HIV infection were highest in Orel City and Mtsensk (64 and 181 per 100,000 population, respectively). |
 | | Since 2001, when this investigation was completed, approximately one fourth of new HIV cases reported in Orel Oblast have occurred in women whose infections resulted reportedly from heterosexual transmission (AIDS Center, unpublished data, 2003), indicating that an epidemiologic transition to transmission of HIV among heterosexual non-IDUs might be under way. |
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