AIDS And Foreign Policy
Source: http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2009/10/_rates_of_hiv_in.htmPosted on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | In Investing Lessons, Russia
So will any advice
be heeded? The problem of HIV in Russia seems to remain, in the Kremlin’s eyes, inherently linked to the stream of opium
flooding out of Afghanistan, a problem politicians have suggested
lies in the hands of NATO and US forces in the region. At the
beginning of this month, the head of Russia’s drug control agency
complained that US and NATO forces were not doing enough to counter opium production and that the US should to ‘take more adequate measures’ to stem the flow of drugs feeding Russia’s 2-2.5 million addicts. Just last week, we saw Medvedev blaming coalition forces for failing to secure the borders and suppress drug manufacturing, following a UN Office on Drugs and Crime report that showed Russia was awash with Afghan heroin.
ITAR-TASS says that cooperation on Afghanistan will be at the forefront of the agenda of the upcoming Russia-NATO Council summit in Brussels on December 15-17. Increased Russia-NATO cooperation on the issue may be a positive step forward, but whether it will herald changes flowing down as far as Russia’s HIV-positive drug users, or indeed those who have contracted the virus without intravenous drug use, is quite another matter.
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