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One demographic indicator is the structure of mortality by cause. Analysis of the causes of death allows you to define the fight against the disease, efforts should be focused to reduce mortality and on the effectiveness of measures against those or other diseases. The basis of information about the causes of death is a medical certificate of death, filling it depends on the correct diagnosis, the choice of the original cause of death, coding, as well as on policy documents aimed at reducing mortality from a particular cause. In the Russian Federation, in contrast to the countries of the European region, there is a fairly high proportion of inaccurately marked conditions, which account for 6.9% of all causes (in 2010 - 5%), the main reason for this is «old age», which ranks 4th among the leading causes of death (5% of all causes, in 2010 - 2.8%), as well as damage with uncertain intentions, which are on the 7th rank place of the leading causes of death (2.3% of all causes, in 2010 - 2%).

© 2018, Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved. The present article deals with the problems pertaining to the forensic medical diagnostics of the HIV-associated pathological conditions taking into consideration the materials available from the Moscow City Centre for AIDS Prophylaxis and Control with special reference to the number and structure of the diagnosed HIV-associated diseases. We undertook the analysis of co-morbid HIV/AIDS causes of violent and sudden deaths documented at the Bureau of Forensic Medical Expertise of the Moscow Health Department during the period from 2013 till 2016. The study revealed the tendency toward a rise in the number of deaths from the HIV-associated infections including tuberculosis, pneumonias, chronic immunodeficiency conditions refractory to the treatment, and from malignant neoplasms. A peculiar feature of the aforementioned period was the increased age of the deceased subjects. In the cases of violent deaths, the HIV-associated conditions were diagnosed as the concomitant diseases, with the markedly predominant ones being acute drug and alcohol intoxication, injures, and attempts at suicide. The available results of the studies give evidence of the necessity and importance of the cooperative work of the specialists for the further improvement of forensic medical diagnostics and monitoring of HIV-associated conditions.