On the front lines of Russia’s ‘staggering’ HIV epidemic
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 syringes to Russians dashing into and out of the store. “Mostly drug users have hepatitis,” she says. “And many of them have HIV.” According to the United Nations’ UNAIDS program, Russia had the third-highest number of new HIV infections globally in 2015, behind South Africa and Nigeria. Russian government statistics show that more tha
On the front lines of Russia's 'staggering' HIV epidemic
Source: Virology News
