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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/epidem.2023.13.1.6-11

Pokrovsky V.V.

Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being, Moscow, Russia
The paper describes the history of identifying child-to-mother transmission of HIV at breastfeeding during the nosocomial outbreak of HIV infection in the south of Russia in 1988–1989 and discusses the consequences of this outbreak.

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About the Autors


Professor Vadim V. Pokrovsky, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MD, Head, Department for AIDS Prevention and Control, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being, Moscow, Russia; pokrovsky.vad@yandex.ru; https//orcid.org/0000-0002-9514-7288; Scopus Author ID:7202457043


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