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HIV/AIDS Prevention
Russian government lacks will to combat spread of HIV/AIDS, experts say
December 12th, 2004
AIDS and the HIV virus are spreading at an alarming pace in Russia, but the government lacks the political will to combat the epidemic that may claim tens of thousands of lives within the next few years, leading experts warned November 17, 2004. "Russia remains among countries with the highest rates of the spread of the AIDS epidemic," Natalia Ladnaya, a senior researcher at the Russian Federal AIDS Center, said at a conference of experts from the United States, Europe and Asia. Russia has officially registered more than 300,000 HIV-positive people, but experts estimate that the real number is closer to 1.5 million, about 2% of the adult population,...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2004-12-12)
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