Topic: Russia
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" ...
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 died ...
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 -- ...
The article presents the answers to the quiz presented on page 30 of the journal. Of the 467 product recalls in the United States in 2006, 113 were for products manufactured by U.S. firms, compared with 221 from China. In 2007, 57 ...
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 combat ...
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. In ...
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 ...
Ex-US Envoy Tells Russia That They're Losing Battle Against HIV/AIDS Because of Gov't InactionRichard 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 ...
Photo Gallery
-
Blue Jackets Coyotes Hockey
Columbus Blue Jackets' R.J. Umberger (18) scores a goal against Phoenix ...AP News - -
Russia Schwarzenegger
FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 file photo, Russian President Dmitry ...AP News - -
Russia Sweden World Junior Hockey
Sweden goaltender Robin Lehner makes a save on Russia's Danil Sobchenko ...AP News -
From Around the Web
Video Gallery
-
We Object! Russia and China veto ...
The United Nations Security Council has just voted on a ...2012-02-04 -
Still a No! Russia thumbs down ...
Moscow says it cannot support the new draft resolution on ...2012-02-03 -
Voting on Video: Big Brother wires ...
The watchful eyes of webcams are about to be set ...2012-02-03
