Stigma hurts Russia's fight against HIV: UN

2011-06-03T13:30:23Z

Russia and the ex-Soviet bloc need to step up their HIV prevention programmes to stop its rapid spread, but stigma and domestic drug policies are hindering progress, UN representatives said Friday.

As the world prepares to mark the 30-year anniversary of the first recorded case of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, effective prevention is "to a large extent missing in the region," ...

HIV on rise in ex-communist bloc, AIDS experts warn

2011-05-27T16:30:19Z

More must be done to stem HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe, as infections continue to spiral in nations in the region, notably Russia, experts warned on Friday.

"Western Europe, including southern states like Portugal that used to cause a lot of worry on...

AIDS: Europe's new plague

2010-11-29T15:15:40Z

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2010-11-29T15:15:55Z

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Swiss drug policy should serve as model: experts

2010-10-25T10:30:18Z

GENEVA (Reuters) - Switzerland's innovative policy of providing drug addicts with free methadone and clean needles has greatly reduced deaths while cutting crime rates and should serve as a global model, health experts said on Monday.

Countries whose drug policy remains focused on punishing offenders, including

The World is a Ghetto: Global Slums - Out of Sight and out of Mind: Deterioration of the Human Condition.

2010-11-02T21:36:50Z

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Lethal mixture drives AIDS pandemic in ex-Soviet bloc

2010-07-22T09:16:20Z

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 and grassroots workers portrayed a regional pandemic growing at murderous pace.

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HIV: Top medical journal blasts Russia over drug users

2010-07-13T17:15:16Z

Russia could more than halve its rates of new HIV infections by ending criminalisation of intravenous drug users, experts said in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Wednesday.

In an analysis published ahead of the International AIDS Conference, the experts said Russia's strict laws on drug use had helped fan its HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Research shows that...

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2010-11-02T14:03:54Z

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Drug users must be helped to halt AIDS spread: U.N.

2010-04-23T07:45:31Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Countries in eastern Europe and central Asia face spiralling AIDS epidemics if they fail to help people who inject drugs and stop the spread of infection, the head of the United Nations agency for HIV/AIDS said on Friday.

Michel Sidibe told Reuters countrie...

Failure to aid drug users drives HIV spread: study

2010-06-12T18:35:29Z

LONDON (Reuters) - More than 90 percent of the world's 16 million injecting drug users are offered no help to avoid contracting AIDS, and governments that ignore them risk a spiraling public health crisis, drugs experts said on Monday.

A "critical health problem" is growing in places like Russia, China, Russia, where discrimination against people with AIDS is rampant.

Izambayeva, 28, has been seeking custody of 10-year-old Sasha since their mother died in February, but Russian authorities sent her an official refusal, citing her "incurable" disease.

It is an another indication that, even as governments an...

Russia policies slammed at HIV conference

2010-04-16T09:34:46Z

Russia came under fire from international AIDS campaigners on Wednesday for refusing to provide drug users with drug substitution therapy to stem a spreading HIV epidemic.

Russia's chief medical official Gennady Onishchenko told a major AIDS conference that Moscow opposed providing methadone -- a synthetic drug that is not inj...

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2010-10-22T11:11:44Z

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Russia Mayor Links HIV To Gay Rights

2010-04-16T13:58:07Z

Moscow Mayor Luzhkov has linked HIV to the gay rights movement

Just days after the world presented an united front against HIV during Monday's 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov has linked HIV to the gay rights movement, reports the

Drug addiction causes 65 pct of Russian HIV cases: agency

2010-04-16T14:11:29Z

Nearly two thirds of Russians with HIV contracted the virus that causes AIDS by using illegal drugs, the country's consumer rights and sanitary oversight agency said Monday.

"The taking of drugs by a parenteral means remains the main way AIDS is transmitted, representing 65 percent of cases," the Rospotrebnadzor agency said in a statement released at a Moscow press conference.

Russia has a...

AIDS official: HIV spreading fast in Russia

2010-04-16T14:14:27Z

A top Russian anti-AIDS coordinator on Friday lambasted the government's approach to fighting HIV, saying the number of registered cases was growing 10 percent a year despite increased federal funding.

A misguided focus on treatment instead of prevention has undermined efforts to combat AIDS, said Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the state-funded Federal AIDS Cent...

More funding failing to curb AIDS epidemic in Russia: official

2010-04-16T14:14:40Z

Greater investment in combatting AIDS is failing to slow its spread in Russia, the director of the Russian federal AIDS centre Vadim Pokrovsky said Friday.

"The AIDS epidemic is currently rising in our country," Pokrovsky told a press conference in Moscow.

"We have a large amount of funding that is going to increase still furthe...

UN AIDS chief concerned about Russia, eastern Europe

2010-04-16T16:30:46Z

The UN AIDS chief said Tuesday that the global fight against the disease has made progress but voiced concern over rising cases in parts of the world, including Russia and Eastern Europe.

"The overall finding of the report is that we've made enormous progress, that there are real results," Ex-US Envoy Tells Russia That They're Losing Battle Against HIV/AIDS Because of Gov't Inaction

Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told Russians on Thursday that their country is losing the battle against HIV/AI...

Global business leaders warn of economic consequences of Russia's HIV/AIDS crisis

2010-09-10T06:27:40Z

Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told Russians on Thursday that their country is losing the battle against HIV/AIDS because of government inaction and a lack of public awareness.

"You are in terrible, terrible danger here in Russi...

Gay World Tour - Russia

2010-10-15T09:43:23Z

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HIV Around the World - The Russian Federation

2010-10-15T09:43:21Z

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Blue Jackets Coyotes Hockey

2011-01-04T21:01:31Z

Columbus Blue Jackets' R.J. Umberger (18) scores a goal against Phoenix Coyotes' Ilya Bryzgalov, of Russia, during the second period of an California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for a ride in his vintage car, a Soviet built Chaika luxury car, during their meeting in the Gorki residence outside Moscow, Russia. The Russian president and the Terminator are tweeting, and m...

Russia Sweden World Junior Hockey

2011-01-03T19:31:54Z

Sweden goaltender Robin Lehner makes a save on Russia's Danil Sobchenko (14) during first period semifinal action at the World Junior Hockey Championships in Buffalo, N.Y. on Monday Jan. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Russia forward Denis Golubev, left, scores on Sweden goalie Robin Lehner during the shootout of a World Junior Hockey Championship semifinal in Buffalo, N.Y., on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. Russia won 4-3. (AP Photo/Don Heupel)

Vnukovo airport in Moscow, Russia. A Russian passenger jet, Tu-154, similar to the plane pictured here, carrying 128 people caught fire while taxiing for takeoff at the Western Siberian oil town of Surgut a...

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