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AIDS
Erupts as National Security Issue - Epidemics Threaten Russia,
China and India |
Five years
ago, the Clinton Administration identified AIDS as a national
and global security threat, declaring that it has the potential
to destabilize governments. Today, the threat has grown as
governments across sub-Saharan Africa teeter on the brink of
collapse while those in developed and developing states differ
greatly in their reactions to the devastating disease from
denial to the suggestion of aggressive action. |
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Country Report of the Russian Federation on the
Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS |
The first
case of HIV was identified in the Russian Federation in
1987. Until 1995, the infection primarily spread through
sexual contact, mainly through unprotected homosexual
intercourse. At that time, there was a steady increase in
the number of HIV-positive people with 100-150 new cases
registered per year. |
Pdf 864 kb |
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Economic
Consequences of HIV in Russia
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Graphs and charts
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HIV and AIDS in the Former Soviet Bloc |
The first public announcement of cases of HIV infection in
the former Soviet Union came in the mid-1980s and was greeted
with denial and derision: many believed that AIDS could not
happen there and that it must therefore be limited to
homosexuals, drug addicts, and other “deviants,” as well as
black Africans and foreign tourist. Some believed that
HIV was developed by developed by the United States as part of
the Cold War, to be “tested” on marginalized persons who led a
disorderly sexual life. |
160 kb pdf |
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HIV Erupts in Russia |
Across
Russia, widespread ignorance and stigma surrounding the
disease still facilitate the isolation of people with HIV.
The vulnerability and instability of drug users, sex workers
and street children makes these groups especially hard to
mobilize |
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Natasha Trade:
Transnational Sex Trafficking |
Trafficking in
women and girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation is a
shadow market valued at US $7 billion annually. Women are
trafficked to, fro, and through every region in the world |
401 kb pdf |
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Natasha Trade:
The Transnational Shadow Market of Trafficking in Women |
Trafficking in
women for the purpose of sexual exploitation is a
multi-billion dollar shadow market. Women are trafficked to,
from, and though every region in the world using methods that
have become new forms of slavery. The value of the global
trade in women as commodities for sex industries is estimated
to be between seven and 12 billion dollars annually. |
79 kb pdf |
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Positively Abandoned: Stigma and Discrimination against
HIV-positive Mothers and their Children in Russia |
Russia is
home to one of the fastest-growing and potentially massive AIDS
epidemics in the world, but the government has done little to
address the problem. As a result, the Russian public today,
though highly educated, is almost as ignorant of HIV and how it
is spread as it was ten years ago, when AIDS was hardly known in
Russia |
Pdf 303 kb |
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RUSSIA: "Growing Number of Army Draftees Have HIV" |
The UNAIDS report said 0.8 percent of Russia's military, or
96,000 out of 1.2 million, have HIV/AIDS. |
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Russia’s HIV/AIDS Crisis |
Russia is part of the ‘second wave’ of states being struck by
HIV/AIDS, and the epidemic threatens to devastate the
country. Although the prevalence of the virus in Russia is
currently not nearly as severe as that of sub-Saharan African
states, the growth of the infection rate in Russia is
second in the world only to Ukraine. |
148 kb pdf |
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Russia-Monitoring &
Evaluation of Nation HIV Prevention |
The main
strengths of the monitoring and evaluation of the program
include a united centralized system of AIDS Centers, which
allows for monitoring and evaluation on the basis of annual
report of AIDS Centers |
42 kb pdf |
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RUSSIA:
"Rights Group Says HIV-Positive Pregnant Women, Babies Face
Discrimination in Russia" |
Official data show more than 9,500 HIV-positive women had
given birth by February 2005. Of them, 10-20 percent had
abandoned their babies, HRW said. Many of those children end up
in segregated orphanages or hospital wards for HIV-positive
children because of fear of contact with them. |
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Russia-trafficking for sexual exploitation |
With the
downturn in financial and economic conditions that has
occurred over the last decade throughout Russia and the former
Soviet republics, there are more and more children and women
who are too vulnerable, too uninformed, or too desperate to
prevent themselves from falling prey to the sex industry.
Many of them then discover that, once they have become a part
of this trade, it is almost impossible to be extricated |
463 kb pdf |
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Street Policing, Injecting Drug Use and Harm Reduction in a
Russian City: A Qualitative Study of Police Perspectives |
We undertook
a qualitative exploration of police perspectives on injecting
drug use and needle and syringe access among injecting drug
users (IDUs) in a Russian city that has witnessed explosive
spread of HIV associated with drug injecting. Twenty seven
in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted in May 2002 with
police officers of varying rank who reported having regular
contact with IDUs. |
Pdf 193 kb |
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The
Future of AIDS: Grim Toll in Russia, China, and India |
HIV/AIDS is a disease at once amazingly virulent and
shockingly new. Only a generation ago, it lay undetected. Yet in
the past two decades, by the reckoning of the Joint UN Programme
on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), about 65 million people have contracted
the illness, and perhaps 25 million of them have already died.
The affliction is almost invariably lethal: scientists do not
consider a cure to be even on the horizon. For now, it looks as
if AIDS could end up as the coming century's top infectious
killer. |
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Top Russian Official Says One In 25 Could Have HIV In Five
Years |
The top
Russian government HIV/AIDS expert, Vadim Pokrovsky of the
Russian Center for AIDS Prevention and Treatment, said in a
new report yesterday that at least 500,000 Russians have HIV
and that as many as 1.5 million of the country's 147 million
people may be infected. |
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Supplying
Women for the Sex Industry: Trafficking from the Russian
Federation |
The Russian
Federation is a major sending country for women trafficked
into sex industries around the world. Russian women are known
to be in sex industries in over 50 different countries. |
70 kb pdf |
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Ukraine-socio-economic
impact |
Its potential social and economic impact
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Pdf 95 kb
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Unsafe and Ignorant, Or How Russians Do Sex |
An average
Russian’s thoughts on safe sex include the following maxim:
Having sex while wearing a condom is like smelling flowers
while wearing a gas mask. In Russia, gays and drug users
make up the two highest-risk groups for contracting AIDS,
but plenty other unpleasant maladies await the modern
roaming heterosexual. |
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