Topic: Russia
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Svetlana Izambayeva wants to free her little brother from an orphanage but there's a big problem: she's HIV-positive and this is Russia, where discrimination against people with AIDS is rampant. Izambayeva, 28, has been seeking custody of 10-year-old Sasha since their mother ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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