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Holy shit, that's huge. I was trying to wrap my head around those numbers.
Russia is about 3½ times Canada's population, so 30K deaths is, per capita, equivalent to about 8.5K deaths in Canada. That's higher than all-cause mortality in Canada from ages 1-35. Just from HIV.
Whoa. That's not good.
Or, another perspective:
More than 1% of Russians are infected with HIV. (Estimated 1.5mm out of ~140mm.)
That seems to be too high. How can it be in a society which is extremely homophobic?
It's primarily heterosexual transmission, though MSM and needle sharing are still vectors.
Sorry, MSM? I can't read this as anything other than mainstream media.
Men who have Sex with Men, it includes multiple orientations under the umbrella such as Bi/Gay/Pan/(or straight or undecided, but still have sex with other men, MSM is used in a medical context)