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Russia: 83 migrants with HIV and other infectious diseases deported from the Nizhny Novgorod region in 2025

29 May 2026
Source: News.ru
Russian Federation
Deportation
83 migrants with dangerous diseases who lived in the Nizhny Novgorod region were expelled from Russia in 2025. 49 of them, according to the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the region, left the country on their own. This became known from the report of the regional Rospotrebnadzor.

In total, 57,616 foreigners, most of them are citizens of Uzbekistan, passed the medical examination last year. Specialists identified 84 patients with infectious diseases. 31 people were infected with HIV, 29 with tuberculosis, 24 with syphilis.

Rospotrebnadzor issued 24 decisions on the deportation of HIV-patient migrants who do not have close Russian relatives, as well as 30 decisions on the expulsion of tuberculosis patients and 29 decisions on syphilis patients.

However, such conclusions can be appealed. In 2025, the office considered eight applications for suspension of the decision on the undesirability of stay. Four of them were a positive verdict. In addition, ten applications for the cancellation of the decision on the undesirability of stay were received, and all were satisfied.