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AIDS in Russia Being Ignored
10 February 2002
By Peter Graff
MOSCOW (Reuters) - AIDS is soon to ravage Russia with consequences that may be even more catastrophic than in Africa, yet the public is barely even aware the epidemic has arrived, Russia's top AIDS official said.
After decades of little contact with the disease, Russia and Ukraine have suddenly been caught unprepared in the throes of the world's fastest growing epidemic of the HIV virus.
...There are as yet no teeming clinics packed with the desperate and the dying, no armies of children orphaned by the disease or destitute patients begging on the streets. The untreated will not begin to die in their thousands for a decade.
...Russia's AIDS epidemic is already far worse than in Western Europe and North America, where the disease struck high risk populations of drug users and homosexuals but stopped before becoming widespread among the rest of the public.
Copyright 2002 Reuters
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http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=worldnews&StoryID=584771
category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Andrea Welch on 12 February 2002
Europe and Former Soviet Republics : Russia
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