Luchando contra una epidemia en Rusia a más de 4.000 kilómetros

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Luchando contra una epidemia en Rusia a más de 4.000 kilómetros

13 marzo 2014

Rusia se enfrenta a una situación alarmante debido al rápido crecimiento de la epidemia del VIH en su territorio.

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Russia faces an alarming situation with its fastest-growing HIV epidemic. Russia is home to the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemic. Driven by injection drug use, it is now becoming generalized. If you use injection drugs in Russia, you likely have HIV, hepatitis C, and more often than not, tuberculosis.

Although the Russian constitution grants the right to free access to health services in government facilities, it does not provide effective care to those who have these multiple infections. And it bans opioid substitution therapy—the most effective opiate addiction treatment.

In many ways, the story of Max, who you meet in this video, is typical of the hundreds of thousands of Russians who use drugs. As an intravenous drug user, he contracted HIV and hepatitis C.

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