[Role of the priority national health project in implementing HIV epidemic control strategy in the Russian Federation].

According to the data of the UN AIDS control program, the estimated number of persons living with HIV infection worldwide is close to 36 million. There is only one way to reduce HIV infection treatment and care costs; this is to develop large-scale HIV prevention programs. The geography of the HIV infection epidemic is inhomogeneous; about 70% of the absolute number of all notified HIV cases are concentrated in 15 subjects of Russia; bulk of them are industrially developed high-income areas. The laboratory base of AIDS prevention and control centers has been drastically renewed; about 400 units of up-to-date laboratory equipment have been purchased. The problem of preventing the prevalence of HIV infection is being primarily solved within the framework of the priority national project. The programs to prevent HIV infection among particularly vulnerable population groups have been elaborated with regard to the realities and specific features of development of the epidemic of HIV infection.