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Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 11, 2023

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AIDS center can't check actual source. Even worse, the 43% you citing in bold refers to subset of people who answered the center's question about source of infection (more than half of people declined). So, proper way to present numbers is something like:

60% declined to answer

22% said IDU

17% said heterosexual

0.6% said homosexual contact

Heterosexual transmission as main way of infection manifests in that there are more HIV+ women than HIV+ men, South Africa and Zimbabwe have it, Russia doesn't.

According to polls, homophobia in Russia is still increasing since ~2005.

It needs to be added that Russia doesn't have methadone replacement therapy and IDUs are more problem.