Social and epidemiological features of HIV prevalence among injecting drug users in Belarus
In this article the socio-epidemiological peculiarities of prevalence of HIV-infection among injection drug users on the basis of analysis of official data of Ministry of Health of Belarus was investigated. It was shown that despite the growing number of cases of sexual transmitting of HIV-infection, parenteral way of transmitting remains on of the main reason of prevalence this infection among the population of Belarus. These data might be useful for epidemiological supervision and elaboration of prophylaxes approaches for problem drug users.