Topic: Central Asia
Official indifference, stigma and a blinkered reflex to criminalise drug addicts have turned Eastern Europe and Central Asia into the region where HIV is spreading fastest, the world AIDS forum heard.The six-day forum staged a series of workshops and seminars where policymakers ...
Nowhere in the world is the HIV virus spreading faster than in eastern Europe and Central Asia, where more than 80 percent of those infected are under 30 years old, UNICEF said Monday."Eastern Europe and Central Asia are the only parts of ...
Few Eastern Europe and Central Asian leaders have said they would attend a major AIDS conference next month, organisers said Thursday, despite rising HIV rates in the two regions.Former US president Bill Clinton tops the billing for the July 18-23 International AIDS ...
A row over Uzbekistan's stand on HIV-AIDS erupted Thursday hours ahead of a celebrity fund-raising gala held at the Cannes film festival each year.In an open letter, French media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) denounced the scheduled attendance at the ...
An AIDS outbreak at two children's hospitals in Uzbekistan has killed at least 14 children and left 133 infected with HIV, according to a documentary posted on a respected Central Asian news Web site on Monday.The editor of Ferghana.ru said the 2007 ...
An AIDS activist in Uzbekistan has been sentenced to seven years in prison for writing a brochure that authorities said would promote antisocial behaviour, activists said Thursday.Maxim Popov was convicted last September, his colleagues told AFP, but his case only came to ...
Four more Kyrgyz toddlers have been infected with HIV in an outbreak blamed on medical negligence, officials said Wednesday, raising the number of people diagnosed to 26.The latest cases involve children who are 2 and 3 years old and were found after ...
Seven more Kyrgyz toddlers and two adults have been diagnosed with HIV in an outbreak blamed on medical negligence, officials said Friday, raising the number of people infected to 22.The latest cases were found in the southern city of Osh during widespread ...
Four top Kyrgyz doctors were fired Monday for accidentally infecting 10 children and one adult with the virus that causes AIDS, the Republican AIDS Association said.Health Minister Tuygunaaly Abdraimov fired the head of the southern Osh region's children's hospital, the regional epidemic ...
21 People Convicted in HIV-Infection Scandal That Outraged KazakhstanA court convicted 21 medical workers Wednesday for their roles in infecting scores of children with the virus that causes AIDS in a case that has outraged Kazakhstan.The Shymkent district court gave suspended sentences ...
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