Opportunities for addiction care and HIV prevention in Russia

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 ...

January 24, 2017
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Federal register of HIV patients in Russia launched

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 ...

January 09, 2017
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Nearly two-thirds of European HIV cases are now in Russia

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 ...

January 09, 2017
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Russia’s silent HIV epidemic

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 ...

November 24, 2016
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