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>It is estimated that in 2017, the Russian Federation had the highest number of HIV-positive people of any country in Europe.[5] In the following 5 years, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing annually estimated the number of new infections at 70,000-100,000. At the end of 2021 there were 1.137 million infected people in the country, accounting for 1.5% of the adult population; 424.9 thousand people died during the entire history of the epidemic.[6][7][8][9][10] Nevertheless, most experts believe that the real number of HIV-positive people is significantly higher, since a noticeable part has not yet been identified.[11][12]