The 35th anniversary of the North-Western District center for AIDS prevention and control at the Saint Petersburg Pasteur Institute

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The organization of the North-Western District Center for AIDS Prevention and Control (AIDS Center) originates from the onset of the HIV epidemic in the Russian Federation. Over the 35 years of work, the staff of the AIDS Center has made an invaluable contribution to the development of HIV diagnostics, the introduction of new clinical and preventive technologies, patient counseling, and training of qualified personnel. The anniversary article highlights the main stages regarding establishment of the AIDS Center as a structural unit of the Saint Petersburg Pasteur Research Institute. The versatile naturally multidisciplinary functions and tasks related to the AIDS Center organization, its major Russia-wide and global achievements are considered. Special attention is paid to the long-term international cooperation, the results of diverse implemented programs and projects supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. The AIDS Center continues to cooperate with the main scientific facilities such as the Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, Institute of Experimental Medicine, N.P. Bekhtereva Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences, etc. The ongoing joint research invariably contributes to assessing the epidemiology and clinical course of various viral infections and comorbid conditions. The knowledge acquired becomes regularly summarized and published in a series of monographs, journal articles being presented demonstrated at conferences of various levels. Currently, the AIDS Center is represented by several structural divisions continuing to conduct practical and scientific activities on investigating HIV and viral hepatitis.

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Nikolay A. Belyakov

Saint Petersburg Pasteur Institute; Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

Email: beliakov.akad.spb@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2006-2255
SPIN-code: 5974-2630

PhD, MD (Medicine), Professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Department of Socially Significant Infections, Chief Researcher, Head of North-West District Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS

Russian Federation, 197101, Saint Petersburg , Mira str., 14; 197022, Saint Petersburg, street Lev Tolstoy, 6-8

Svetlana V. Ogurtsova

Saint Petersburg Pasteur Institute

Email: epidaids@pasteurorg.ru

PhD (Medicine), Researcher, Laboratory of Immunology and Virology of HIV Infection, Epidemiologist of the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention of HIV Infection

Russian Federation, 197101, Saint Petersburg , Mira str., 14

Vadim V. Rassokhin

Saint Petersburg Pasteur Institute; Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

Email: ras-doc@mail.ru

DSc (Medicine), Associate Professor, Leading Researcher, Professor of the Department of Socially Significant Infections and Phthisiopulmonology

Russian Federation, 197101, Saint Petersburg , Mira str., 14; 197022, Saint Petersburg, street Lev Tolstoy, 6-8

Dmitry A. Lioznov

Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University; Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza

Email: dlioznov@yandex.ru

DSc (Medicine), Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Director

Russian Federation, 197022, Saint Petersburg, street Lev Tolstoy, 6-8; Saint Petersburg

Elena B. Yastrebova

Saint Petersburg Pasteur Institute; Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

Email: elena_yastrebova@inbox.ru

DSc (Medicine), Associate Professor, Leading Researcher, Professor of the Department of Socially Significant Infections and Phthisiopulmonology

Russian Federation, 197101, Saint Petersburg , Mira str., 14; 197022, Saint Petersburg, street Lev Tolstoy, 6-8

Ekaterina V. Boeva

Saint Petersburg Pasteur Institute; Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: kathrine.boeva@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0452-7478

PhD (Medicine), Assistant Professor, Department of Socially Significant Infections and Phthisiopulmonology, Infectious Disease Doctor, Head of Department of Chronic Viral Infection in North-West District Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS

Russian Federation, 197101, Saint Petersburg , Mira str., 14; 197022, Saint Petersburg, street Lev Tolstoy, 6-8

Areg A. Totolyan

Saint Petersburg Pasteur Institute; Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University

Email: a.totolyan@mail.ru

RAS Full Member, DSc (Medicine), Professor, Director, Head of the Department of Immunology

Russian Federation, 197101, Saint Petersburg , Mira str., 14; 197022, Saint Petersburg, street Lev Tolstoy, 6-8

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2. Figure 1. Employees of the Regional AIDS Center, 1993

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3. Figure 2Figure 2. Training of laboratory doctors at the AIDS Center. A training seminar conducted by Francoise Barre-Sinoussi (France, second from left), who in 1983, together with L. Montagnier, identified HIV (Nobel Prize, 2008)

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4. Figure 3. Professor T.T. Smolskaya, Head of the AIDS Center, and S.V. Ogurtsova, epidemiologist, 2002

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5. Figure 4. The AIDS Center headed over the years by: Professor D.A. Lioznov (on the right) and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences N.A. Belyakov, 2018

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6. Figure 5. Recent monograph covers prepared by the staff of the AIDS Cente

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7. Figure 6. The school-seminar «Select issues of chronic viral infections in clinical practice» was held in Saint Petersburg on February 26, 2020, by the AIDS Center staff members DSc (Medicine) V.V. Rassokhin, DSc (Medicine) E.B. Yastrebova, PhD (Medicine) E.V. Boeva

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8. Figure 7. A Jubilee Year Monograph «Human biocenosis and hospital environment» Edited by N.A. Belyakov and S.F. Bagnenko, Saint Petersburg , 2023, 424 p.

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Copyright (c) 2023 Belyakov N.A., Ogurtsova S.V., Rassokhin V.V., Lioznov D.A., Yastrebova E.B., Boeva E.V., Totolyan A.A.

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