The number of HIV infections is expected to rise by 12.5 percent in Russia in 2012, with up to 200 new cases registered every day on average, the head of Russia's federal AIDS research center said on Wednesday. The news agency "Novosti" quoted Russian Prime Center Federal Russian Research "AIDS", Vadim Pokrovsky, saying on Wednesday that "there are more than 50 thousand new cases of HIV were recorded in the first ten months of the year 2012. He pointed out that it is expected registration of nearly 70 thousand new cases of AIDS next year, is expected to diagnose the disease at a total of about 62 thousand people in Russia the end of 2012, Pokrovsky said that "Russia is on the footsteps of Africa , where the infection is widely spread between the sexes. "