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Russia’s silent but deadly AIDS epidemic
Author: Diana Bruk One uncharacteristically sunny morning in St. Petersburg, Russia, Nikolai Antonovich (not his real name) got a phone call from his local clinic demanding that he come over...
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Russia faces alarming growth in HIV infections
Drawing by Natalia Mikhailenko By Ivan Varentsov The HIV epidemic is one of the most pressing public health problems in Russia today. According to the latest UNAIDS global report, Eastern Europe and...
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HIV rate going up in Russia – watchdog
MOSCOW. Nov 15 (Interfax) – The HIV rate is on the rise in Russia, according to a sanitary watchdog, which describes it as an “epidemic.” Between January and September this year more than 54,000 new...
View ArticleMethadone Looms as Obstacle in Russia’s Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Author: Christopher Brennan As Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova trumpeted Russia’s progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS, critics insist that the government policy prohibiting methadone...
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A Life of Dignitiy for All
This post is a speech given by Michel Kazatchkine on the opening day of the 4th Conference on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As we open this conference, I would like to salute the...
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Russia: Critics Continue To Attack “Hypocrisy” Over HIV/AIDS
Author: Pavol Strakansky MOSCOW, May 21 2014 (IPS) - International bodies and local campaign groups have repeatedly criticised Russia for not doing anywhere near enough in terms of providing prevention...
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Experts Say Russia Not Ready to Fight HIV
By Allison Quinn Olesya asks if her glittery hair clips are in place, if her hot pink lipstick needs reapplication. It’s all she can do to detract attention from the stump where her arm used to be, the...
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Fighting HIV where no-one admits it’s a problem
The phrase “Aids epidemic” awakens distant memories in most of Europe, Australia or the Americas, where infection rates have generally been in decline for years. But as former UK Health Secretary Lord...
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While Russia grapples with HIV epidemic, Moscow’s addicts share their filthy...
Author: Alec Luhn Almost as soon as two HIV-prevention activists set up outside the pharmacy in the outskirts of Moscow with two huge backpacks of supplies, a skinny young man with mussed hair and an...
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Russia has a serious HIV crisis, and the government is to blame
By Amar Toor Maxim Malyshev’s life changed with a phone call in 1997. He was addicted to heroin at the time, and had just been arrested for possession in his hometown of Tver, Russia, about 100 miles...
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Boycott or support?
Author: Max Malyshev, editor of the independent newspaper reporting on drug related issues Shlyapa and Bayan, Andrey Rylkov Foundation Very soon, on 23 – 24 March 2016, Moscow will host the 5th Eastern...
View ArticleRussia HIV infection bucks trends as World Aids Day marked
MOSCOW (AP) — On a frigid evening on the outskirts of Moscow, two HIV-prevention activists unzip backpacks, pull out packs of hypodermic needles and start discretely approaching people leaving a nearby...
View ArticleSex, syringes and the HIV epidemic Russia can no longer ignore
Author: Alec Luhn Taking shelter briefly from the 20-degree cold in an activist group’s van near the outskirts of Moscow, Ivan, 26, recounted his closest call with HIV. He was shooting heroin with a...
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The Russian epidemic you haven’t heard about
Text: Tracy Moran Alexey Kurmanaevsky has been clean for 20 months. It’s not the longest period the 25-year-old from Kazan, Russia, has been off drugs like heroin, but with his family’s help, the...
View ArticleLeft out in the cold: Living with HIV in Russia
Russia, the largest country on earth, which emerged from the post-Soviet economic and political chaos to reassert itself, is facing an HIV/Aids epidemic. The current rate of HIV is less than one...
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Immune to reason
The front line in the fight against Europe’s fastest-growing HIV epidemic runs through a dark blue bus parked on the outskirts of St Petersburg. Two friends enter late one September evening to collect...
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Why Russia’s Heroin Addicts Are Going Through Hell
Illustration: Angelica Alzona/Gizmodo Text: Emma Lantreev This week, an HIV epidemic has been officially declared in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, where the health department estimates 1 out of...
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Russia Wishes Away Its HIV Epidemic
Russia’s medical infrastructure is worn-out, underfunded and hardly capable of dealing with a massive public health crisis. Dmitry Markov Text: Daria Litvinova The tired, gray-haired epidemiologist in...
View ArticleRussia’s Silent HIV Epidemic
By Ryan Hoskins Moscow – Max Malyshev first started using drugs as a teenager in Tver, an industrial city north of Moscow, mostly because it “was just fun,” the 39-year-old said. He grew up in what he...
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H.I.V. Cases Surpass a Million in Russia, but Little Is Done
Volunteers from the Andrey Rylkov Foundation distributing free needles, condoms and other supplies from a truck in Moscow. Credit Max Avdeev for The New York Times Text: NEIL MacFARQUHAR ST....
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