Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Current topic: HIV in Russia today

  • HIV in the world

  • Russia in the global context

  • In 20 regions of the country over 0.5% of the population infected with HIV

  • Among men aged 30-34 2.5% are infected with HIV

  • The main risk factor is sharing narcotics injection equipment

  • Coverage of HIV testing in Russia is high, but is on the decrease

  • Timely initiation of treatment reduces mortality and disability

  • Thanks to treatment, mortality among HIV patients has been cut in half

  • Conclusion

  • Links to related topics

  • Topics of previous issues


World demographic barometer

  • HIV epidemic : estimates and trends, 2014

  • Growth of the global HIV epidemic has slowed, but for the years 1990-2012 35 million people died worldwide due to, AIDS-related illness

  • Of those infected with HIV about 10 % are children under the age of 15, while  about 18 million children have been left orphans because of AIDS

  • About 70 % of those infected with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • The HIV epidemic continues to spread rapidly in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East

  • In 2012, antiretroviral drugs were received by 61% of people needing them

Through the eyes of the analysts

  • The epidemiological situation of tuberculosis and HIV infection in the Russian Federation

  • The epidemiology of tuberculosis in combination with HIV infection

  • Socio-demographic and behavioral characteristics of drug users and an estimate of their numbers in cities of the Northwest Federal District

  • The health of migrant workers in Russia

  • Epidemiological risk factors in relation to labor migration

Take care of women!

  • Publication of global estimates of maternal mortality


Reader correspondence

  • On undercounting the population in the 1937 census


In the vastness of Russia

  • Demographic policy of the Russian Federation has given good results

  • Life expectancy in Russia should be increased to 74 years

  • Fertility in Russia may decline in the coming years

  • By 2015 the number of HIV-positive Russians could reach 1 million people

  • Russians are drinking less, but the situation still needs to be controlled

  • Trade unions propose to mitigate antismoking norms regarding smoking at work

  • Vaccination against pneumococcal disease has been officially included in the immunization schedule

  • By 2018 90% of pharmaceuticals in Russia should be produced by Russian manufacturers

  • Retirement age for women in the Crimea will be lowered as of January 2015

  • Bill on pensions for residents of Crimea has been submitted to the Duma

  • Deadline for entry into state program of co-financing of pensions may be extended

  • Level of payouts to veterans has been increased twice over last four years

  • “Dima Yakovlev Law” will be applied to Crimea and Sebastopol

  • Russians adopting children more often

  • Spending maternity capital for rehabilitation of children with disabilities may be allowed

  • In Russia, nationality doesn’t matter when being hired

  • Over 73 thousand people who acquired citizenship of the Russian Federation in 2013-2014 have another passport

  • Obliging people to report second citizenship not recognized by the Russian Federation is absurd

  • Public Chamber suggests not punishing Russians for failing to report second citizenship they didn’t know about

  • Bashkiria’s parliamentarians propose to tighten immigration laws

  • Program for resettling compatriots in the Russian Federation is not being carried out in the best way

  • Migrants should be tested on their qualifications

  • Should employers provide migrants with health insurance?

  • Employers will be encouraged to teach migrants Russian

  • Ban on surrogacy should be discussed with experts

  • Patient advocate league calls for return of Soviet health care system

Eurasian panorama

  • Population of Kazakhstan increased by 60 thousand people in 2014

  • Mortality in Moldova for the year decreased by 3.8%

  • Total fertility rate in Armenia is below replacement rate

  • In Belarus, a decrease in the percentage of children born out of wedlock

  • Over 8 million inhabitants of Belarus have family ties

  • Moldova starts population and housing census

  • Romania agitating residents of Moldova to call themselves “Romanians” in the census

  • Incomes in Azerbaijan have risen by 5%

  • Wealthy families make up 5.2% of the total number of families in Azerbaijan

  • In Belarus, average pension for disabled veterans of Great Patriotic War is 1.7 times higher than average old-age pension

  • Armenian parliament approves amendments on law “On Funded Pensions”

  • Belarus to provide support for those adopting children over 3 years old

  • In Kirgizia, unemployment rate exceeds 8%

  • Unemployment in Belarus remains at 0.5%

  • In Moldova, still a shortage of doctors and seamstresses

  • Armenians from Syria will receive Armenian passports for free

  • Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada adopts laws liberalizing visa regime with EU

  • Kazakhstan identifies regions for settling ethnic Kazakh returnees

  • Chinese nationals in Kazakhstan are allocated land for lease

  • Russia will not deliberately repatriate Moldovan labor migrants

  • Moldova adopts plan of action to support returning migrant workers

  • Moldovan authorities intend to replace Russian with English in schools

  • Ukraine’s priorities are decentralization, minority rights and the status of the Russian language

  • Yatseniuk promises local councils the right to grant official status to the Russian language

  • Over 80% of those infected with HIV in Moldova are aged between 15 and 39

  • Belarus registers 16,315 cases of HIV infection

  • 111 new HIV cases registered in Armenia

  • Armenia is one of the most “sober” countries in the region

  • For one week women in each region of Belarus will be refused abortions

  • Around 70 residents of Belarus have changed their sex in the last 20 years

World news

  • World sees simultaneous outbreak of four viruses causing grave illnesses

  • New coronavirus reaches Netherlands

  • UNICEF warns of rapid spread of cholera in Southern Sudan

  • Was the “black death” good for the health of Europeans?

  • Death toll from floods in the Balkans reaches 45 people

  • Latvian President calls for increase of salaries

  • In referendum, Swiss vote no to introducing a minimum wage

  • In some countries the economic crisis has had a positive impact on the size of social payments

  • Humanitarian aid is not reaching up to a third of Syrians in need

  • Children in U.S. working up to 12 hours a day in tobacco fields

  • ObamaCare accused of creating senseless jobs

  • Estonian government refuses to simplify granting of citizenship

  • In Lithuania, fight begins against fictive marriage

  • Thailand to tighten immigration rules for foreigners

  • Jews leaving France because of anti-Semitism and economic crisis

  • In 2013 the number of illegal migrants in the EU dramatically increased

  • 26,000 illegal migrants have arrived in Italy since the start of the year

  • More than 100,000 people have become refugees in northeastern Syria

  • Latvia to study the mood of its Russian-speaking population

  • In Latvia, the number of abortions is down

  • Short men are more likely to live long

  • Is it dangerous to replace ‘father’ and ‘mother’ with ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent 2’?

  • In Estonia, the frequency of domestic violence against women has increased


The newspapers write about…

  • “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the problem of AIDS in Russia

  • “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on alcohol, drugs and the problems of diagnosing the causes of death

  • “Kommersant” on the problems of substitution therapy in the Donetsk region

  • “Independent” on alcohol consumption

  • “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on death from alcohol in Russia

  • “Novye Izvestiya” on the fight against alcoholization in Belarus

  • “Dengi” on the problem of smoking in Russia

  • “Gazeta.ru” on a possible increase in mortality in Russia

  • “Naked-science.ru” on the weekly rhythm of mortality in hospitals

  • “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on increased life expectancy in the world

  • “Kommersant” on life expectancy in Russia

  • “Umj.com.ua” on the link between health and life expectancy

  • “Umj.com.ua” on morbidity and disability in adolescents

  • “Novaya Gazeta” on the demographic situation in Russia as seen through the eyes of the head of Rosstat

  • “Kommersant” on the concept of family policy until the year 2025

  • “Helsingin Sanomat” on countries comfortable for motherhood

  • “Kommersant” on migrant in OECD countries

  • “Vedomosti” on the brain drain in the U.S.

  • “Ekspert Ural” on why so many Russians want to emigrate

  • “Izvestiya” on teaching migrants Russian in the workplace

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the problems of migrant children in St. Petersburg

  • “The Atlantic” on racial tension in the USA

  • “The National Interest” on the oppression of Chinese in southeast Asia

  • “Haaretz” on Israeli nationality

  • “Novye Izvestiya” on the Ministry of Regional Development and the Ministry of Nationalities

  • “Gazeta.ru” on dual and “dormant” citizenship

  • “El Pais” on Latvian non-citizens

  • “OMEGA” on the features of the census in Moldova

  • “Russian-bazaar.com” on the natural increase of Latinos in the U.S.

  • “Chas” on the impact of aging on the economy

  • “Kommersant” on the crisis and unemployment

  • “Project Syndicate” on inequality

  • “Kommersant” on forced labor

  • “Haaretz” on the benefits of serving in the Israeli army

  • “Mardom salari” on sexual problems of Iranian youth

  • “Ogonyok” on therapeutic cloning and bioethics

  • “Sitibum” on the budget and the labor market in Moscow

Read books and magazines

  • Annual epidemiological report 2013

  • Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe

  • The ethno-political situation in Russia and neighboring countries in 2012

  • Social trends of the Kirgiz Republic: 2008-2012

  • Through the pages of the magazines “Gigiena i Sanitariya” (“Hygiene and Sanitation”) and “Vestnik MGU. Seriya 6. Ekonomika” (“Moscow State University Bulletin, series 6.  Economics”)

  • Contents of the journal “Studies in Family Planning”

Profession: researcher

  • Young scientists on demographic problems.  Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

  • Vladimir Nikolaevich Arkhangelsky turns 60

Students’ page

  • On the Master’s in Demography

Satirical column

  • The bird-troika of Russian life expectancy


 

 

 

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