High spread of HIV infection (more than 0,5% among the population) was registered in 26 regions of the Russian : Federation, where 41,5% of the country's population live. Aim - to estimate the dynamics of the spread of HIV infection in the region that used to be among the regions most affected by HIV-infection in the Russian Federation; to determine the state of HIV infection among women and children. Materials and methods. The official reporting data ; of the State Regional Clinical Hospital "Samara Regional Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS and : Infectious Diseases" were used. Results. As of 1 January 2017, Samara region is on the 13th place in terms of morbidity due to HIV (104.1 per 100 000 population). Increase in the birth rate of children born from HIV-infected mothers has been observed since 2002 (10,365 children were born in the Samara Region : since the beginning of the epidemic). The diagnosis of "HIV infection" was confirmed in 494 children. Conclusion. Characteristic features ofthe HIV epidemic in the Samara region are: the greatest prevalence of disease in the big cities of the region with further expansion into smaller towns and rural areas. There is the predominance of the sexual mode of transmission at present time. Evolution of the infection is manifested by an increase in the number of infected women, which account for about 40,0% of HIV cases. The rate of detectable HIV infection in pregnant women is growing at a consistently high level, and the proportion of births among HIV-infected pregnant women is increasing. The total cumulative percentage of perinatal HIV infection was 4,8% (0.8% - in 2016).

Aim objective. The study aimed at determining the facility for bronchoscopic examination and management of HIV-infected patients.Materials and methods. Results of a total of 1393 bronchoscopic procedures carried out in HIV-infected patients (100%) hospitalized in the pulmonology departments with different pulmonologic disorders. The HIV-infection was a comorbidity at that.Results. In terms of study process organization two patient flows have been discerned. The first flow included patients with asymptomatic infection/carrier state (138 bronchoscopic procedures [9,91%] for 104 patients), for whom bronchoscopy was performed due to general indications. The second flow comprised patients with a full-scale clinical picture of the disease (1255 bronchoscopic procedures [90,09%] for 1099 patients). The second flow was divided into two groups, namely, patients with earlier diagnosed HIV-infection (group IIА amounting to 523 bronchoscopic procedures [37,54%] for 473 patients) and patients newly diagnosed with HIV infection (group IIВ; 732 bronchoscopic procedures [52,55%] for 626 patients). Common to both groups was the absence of urgent indications for bronchoscopy, although the elective indications were different between the groups. In all instances the endobronchial symptoms were either non-specific or reflected mucosal lesions in the large bronchi related to lung tumor or tuberculosis.

The article presents the results of an empirical research dedicated to the co-occurrence of gestures and self-repairs in simultaneous interpreting. Self-repairs, viewed as a type of disfluencies, are divided into three categories: 1) a disfluency followed by a resolution (“positive” self-repair), 2) a disfluency consisting of repetition of the same lexical unit (“zero” self-repair); 3) an utterance truncated without a restart, which means that such a disfluency is not resolved. The study is based on the assumption that in simultaneous interpreting statistically significant correlation will be observed between various types of self-repair and various types of gestures, such as pragmatic, representational, deictic gestures and adapters. The data was obtained from 18 interpreters who were asked to interpret a popular science lecture from Russian into English. The material was analysed in ELAN and JAMOVI, and quantitative and statistical methods (T-test and ANOVA) were used to check on the hypotheses. The study revealed a strong correlation between self-repairs and gesture usage, which suggests that in moments of disfluency gestures facilitate speech. Concerning the relation between various types of self-repair and functional types of gestures, the hypothesis was not confirmed, although the statistics points to the fact that the simultaneous interpreters tend to use particular types of gestures with certain self-repairs.