Some of the former Soviet states are threatened by “a real AIDS epidemic”. According to Agence France Presse, quoted by Info-Prim Neo, the disease is rapidly spreading among drug addicts, sex workers and homosexuals, said experts at an international conference organized in Mexico by UNAIDS, a structure dealing with such issues. According to UNAIDS, 0.8% of the people aged from 15 to 49 from the former USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia and Bosnia are HIV infected – twice more than in 2001. The index varies between 1 and 1.5% in Russia, as from 1.5 to 2% of the Ukrainian citizens are infected. Without bringing about concrete data, UNAIDS finds the disease is making more victims in Moldova, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Michel Kazatchkin, the director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, stated he was "extremely concerned with the epidemic in this area". In 2007, 110,000 people got infected with HIV in Eastern and Central Europe, as 58,000 have already died. The largest majority of the infected (90%) live in Russia (69%) and Ukraine (29%), and most of them are drug addicts injecting themselves, or sex workers and their partners.