Individuals and organizations interested in signing on to a civil society version of the Moscow Declaration that could serve as a blueprint for commitments and action toward ending the global impacts of tuberculosis over the next decade and a half have one more day to ...

Six case studies documented by the Eurasian Coalition on Male Health Global Fund policies on the composition of country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs) have resulted in increased participation of LGBT organizations on CCMs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA). It has also resulted in greater participation ...

Moscow Anna Alimova works on the front lines of Russia's growing HIV epidemic. On a Friday night, the mother of two with a shock of bright pink hair stands outside a 24-hour pharmacy in a leafy Moscow neighborhood. She cheerfully offers plastic bags full of clean ...

Neither the government nor CSOs have taken up the services previously supported by the Global Fund In January 2017, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation rejected a request to allocate $1.2 billion over four years for the response to HIV, citing “a lack of ...

Central Asia and the Russian Federation face a major intra-regional migration flow, home, as it is, to one of the largest labor migration corridors in the world, with hundreds of thousands of migrant workers moving from Central Asian countries to the Russian Federation and to ...

The Russian Health Ministry has abandoned a proposal to allocate additional funding to the fight against the spread of HIV. According to the RBC news agency, the ministry submitted a four-year plan to the federal government this week that does not include a proposal to ...

Health Ministry says 824,000 of the estimated 850,000 HIV-positive people in Russia have already been added to the registry/ The Russian government has abandoned plans to fine HIV-infected patients who refuse to register on a Kremlin-administered list of sufferers. Patients would have been forced to add their name ...

Agonist therapy with methadone could use existing structure to reduce addiction, HIV Opioid agonist therapy using methadone is regarded as one of the most effective treatments for opioid use disorders as well as helping to reduce HIV risks. Such therapy, however, is not yet available in ...

MOSCOW, January 1. /TASS/. The Federal Register of HIV patients, set to be launched in Russia’s regions on January 1, will help provide patients with medicine, Health Ministry Spokesman Oleg Salagai told TASS. “Any individual diagnosed with HIV should be interested in being included in this ...

Static picture in other countries conceals local change, especially in gay men The annual number of new cases of HIV increased by at least 8% in 2015 in the whole of the World Health Organization’s European region, and by 60% in the last decade, according to ...

“Over the past 10 years, the number of officially recorded patients who receive HIV treatment in Russia has increased five fold from 7.5 % to 37% in 2015. This figure is expected to rise …to 41.5% this year, according to preliminary reports for 2016,” Skvortsova ...

Apathy and political expedience have shaped the Kremlin’s frozen-in-time views on the virus. Will officials finally act to prevent a national health crisis? Moscow, November 22, 2016 — Max Malyshev first started using drugs as a teenager in Tver, an industrial city north of Moscow, mostly ...