AIDS expert flays Kremlin, says Russia's HIV epidemic worsening

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Source: AFP

Moscow (AFP) - Russia's top AIDS expert lambasted the Kremlin's increasingly conservative agenda Thursday, saying the HIV epidemic is worsening and at least two million Russians are likely to be infected in about five years.

Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the country's state AIDS centre, said the Kremlin's policies promoting traditional family values had failed to halt the spread of the deadly virus.

"The last five years of the conservative approach have led to the doubling of the number of HIV-infected people," he told AFP in an interview.

"It has not justified itself," Pokrovsky said, noting that the official number of Russians with HIV has grown to some 930,000 people from around 500,000 in 2010.

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1. Yeah, but who cares about 500K new HIV cases when you get a Homo-Hatin' License from the President?!

It's patriotic, too!!

Laurie Garrett's "Betrayal Of Trust" has a chilling chapter on Russian public health, though the book is about fifteen years old.