The Institute's staff held seminars with students of the Volga Region Research Medical University

10  01.2025 Specialists from the Volga District Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS of the Federal Budgetary Scientific Institution of Science named after Academician I.N. Blokhina of Rospotrebnadzor conducted educational and awareness-raising classes.

The lecture "Epidemiology of HIV infection. State strategy for counteracting the spread of HIV infection in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030" and the practical lesson "Laboratory diagnostics of HIV infection" for 3rd-year students of the medical faculty of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Primary Medical University" of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation were held on January 10, 2025.

The purpose of the events was to attract students' attention to the problem of HIV/AIDS, to present information on the most important aspects related to HIV infection, to draw attention to the need to know and be able to recognize situations of risk of infection, to promote the creation of a healthy lifestyle attitude in young people, as well as methods of diagnosing this disease, principles of testing, the need for pre- and post-test counseling.

The institute's specialists spoke about the routes of infection and precautions that will help to avoid infection, about the principles of modern antiretroviral therapy, as well as the main provisions of the state strategy for counteracting the spread of HIV infection in the Russian Federation.

Anyone who wanted to could take express tests for HIV infection free of charge and anonymously, and receive pre- and post-test consultations.