1268 HIV-infected people have been registered in Volyn. They are mostly people aged 18 to 40 who live in all the cities and districts of the region. The largest number of them is in Novovolynsk, Lutsk and Volodymyr-Volynskyi district, the chief physician of the regional center for AIDS prevention and control, Olena Makarenko, told the Western Information Corporation on November 30. \n \nShe also noted that Ukraine has been in an epidemic situation for the 10th year, and most carriers of the immunodeficiency virus have become AIDS patients. \n \nThe number of transmissions of the disease from mother to child has increased. 11 children live with this diagnosis, and only 6 of them are being treated with funds from a Global Fund grant. Adults will begin treatment only from 2006. \n