[Identification of chlamydia and (or) chlamydia-like microorganisms by light microscopy confirmed by electron microscopy and fluorescent in situ hybridization].

Using light microscopy, we have shown that chlamydia and/or chlamydia-like microorganisms are registered in 20-25% of the healthy part of human population, whereas in patients of the same age with gynecological problems these were found in 40-50%. Commonly, the infection was slightly manifested (less than 5% of cells are infected). These results were confirmed in four months but only in heavily infected patients.

[Comparative analysis of methods of diagnosis of chlamydia infection].

In case of a correct sampling, the diagnostic value of optic and electron microscopy for detecting Chlamydia infection is not inferior to that of direct microimmunofluorescence (DMIF) and higher than that of enzyme immunoassay (EIA). Optic microscopy showed that basal vaginal epithelium and buccal mucosa can be infected with Chlamydia. Provazek bodies were detected in the buccal mucosa of the overwhelming majority of patients with genital chlamydiasis.

[The introduction of projects to prevent HIV infection among people using injection narcotics and women in the sex business in the city of Simferopol'].

The work on the realization of the Project on the Prevention of HIV infection, carried out by the Charity Fund "Hope and Salvation" in 1998-1999 in the Crimea is described. As shown by the analysis of the results of behavioral reactions, the forms of behavior used by drug-dependent persons contribute to the spread of HIV infection. Since November 1999 the realization of the pilot project on the reduction of HIV infection among injecting drug users has been started in Simferopol (with the financial support to the Pasteur Institute and the advisory support of the UN Representation in the Ukraine).