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AIDS And Foreign Policy
Robert Amsterdam (October 29th, 2009) Writes:
AIDS experts are aghast to see that rates of HIV in Russia have doubled in the past 8 years, reports the Washington Post. Russia's 'healthy lifestyles' program and advocacy of abstinence have not been effective in combating the problem, international AIDS workers at an Eastern Europe and Central Asia AIDS Conference have argued. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Yakovenko has apparently defended Russia's 'humanitarian but not dubious methods' (the 'dubious' one being the widely-favored methadone substitution program - illegal in Russia) and advocated the increasing involvement of the Russian Orthodox Church in curbing insalubrious lifestyle choices. So will any advice
be heeded? The problem of HIV in Russia seems to remain, in the Kremlin's ...
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