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Russia: Sex, Drugs, and AIDS and MSF | Journal Article / Commentary | MSF Science Portal
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Russia: Sex, Drugs, and AIDS and MSF

Veeken H
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Abstract
SUMMARY POINTS

-- Russia is finding it increasingly difficult to look after all its citizens. Alcohol misusers and homeless and elderly people fight to survive.
-- A recent problem is the rapid rise in the number of injecting drug misusers. In Moscow an estimated 100 000 users form an important core group for HIV transmission.
-- With the health system in a state of collapse and sexually transmitted diseases on the rise, all the ingredients for a HIV epidemic are present. By the turn of the century the Ministry of Health forecasts there will be 800 000 people who are HIV positive.
-- Médecins Sans Frontières has started an HIV prevention campaign in cooperation with the government.

Countries

Russian Federation

Subject Area

HIV/AIDS

Languages

English
DOI
10.1136/bmj.316.7125.138
Published Date
10 Jan 1998
PubMed ID
9462323
Journal
British Medical Journal (BMJ)
Volume | Issue | Pages
Volume 316, Pages 138
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