Topic: Russia
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 ...
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 HIV ...
The region which brought you the Black Death, communism and all-pervasive kleptocracy now presents: How misleading even these dire data are is revealed by an in-depth study of a single city in Russia, Togliatti. Quoted in Pravda.ru, The Director of the Federal ...
Urination is a process which needs the proper functioning of several tissue structures and organs. When understanding how much of a hindrance does dysuria can exert on ones life, it is interesting to know the famous Napoleon suffered from painful urination at ...
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 ...
A Report from the United Nations settlements program, UN-habitat, which is based in Nairobi, Kenya, they found that urban slums were growing faster than expected, and that the balance of global was shifting rapidly from countryside to the big cities. A United ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Elena Dukhovlinova first heard about the HIV virus in her native Russia in the late 1980s, the reference was to a crisis far away. Russia's HIV/AIDS problem inspired Dukhovlinova to study molecular epidemiology at the Biomedical Center in St. Petersburg, Russia, ...
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 ...
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