title: [Imported cases of malaria and HIV infection in Russia].
abstract: Malaria does not belong to a group of diseases that are markers of HIV infection; a combined transmission of malaria and HIV infection does not occur (except for cases of vertical and syringe-associated transmission of causative organisms), but HIV infection is more common in the malaria-endemic areas since both diseases are socially related. Expansion of both infections is associated with the same social processes in society. This paper analyzes the relationship of the spread of HIV-infection to the routes of migration of narcotic agents in case of Russia, by comparing the spread of HIV infection with the regional distribution of cases of malaria imported by Tadjikistan inhabitants. Importation of malaria from other CIS countries was compared as a control. The authors estimated the coefficients of correlation between the affliction of Russia's population with HIV infection and the rate of malaria importation from Tadjikistan (0.733) and other CIS countries (0.496), as well as between the importation of malaria to Russia and the total volume of a migratory flow from Tadjikistan in the period of 1992 to 2001 (-0.931). The findings indirectly support the assumption that there is a relationship of malaria importation from Tadjikistan to illegal migration, which suggests that the intensive importation of malaria from Tadjikistan may serve as a marker of importation of injectable narcotic drugs and hence that the spread of HIV infection in Russia may be intensified. The authors again emphasize that prevention of the spread of socially related infections requires that the whole society should combine efforts since public health care should not be a hostage of social problems.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Antoniuk
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Sabgaĭda
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014171:Transients and Migrants