"We must attract all strength"

On May 31, George Soros met in Moscow with Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko. The conversation was about the program "Prevention and treatment of tuberculosis in Russia", which has been operating in our country since 1998. Soros, the founder of this program, who had already invested a lot of money into it, tried to convince the Russian Deputy Prime Minister that the World Bank must be taken $ 100 million. Before that, he convinced the World Bank for several years that Russia is vital, and now that the bank agreed, and the Ministry of Health resists, Soros is in a stupid position.

Of course, it is impossible to solve the problem in one fell swoop, and Soros's comments on the meeting with Matvienko were restrained. “We discussed this problem for a long time, since our program is coming to an end, and the World Bank program should follow it,” Soros said. “The medical establishment opposes some of its conditions. The program does not move forward and it is very worried about the prevention, especially about the problem of AIDS, since it is very important for people to realize the danger. There is a real danger of two diseases - AIDS and AIDS and AIDS and AISS The tuberculosis related to each other and creating a serious crisis in healthcare, but today is the growth rate of incidence in Russia, the highest in the world, it seemed to me that Ms. Matvienko reacted to the problem with a greater understanding, and I hope that we will be able to develop some kind of decisions in the population of not more than 1 %. To reduce the threat.

Natalya Vasilieva, director of the program of the Soros Foundation "Health of the population of Russia", says that in addition to $ 14 million for the program for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, George Soros has raised about 4 million for the HIV prevention program among the most vulnerable population groups, mainly among drug consumers. As part of the program, new for Russia are introduced methods for treating tuberculosis Dots and Dots+. A pilot project for the treatment of drug -stable forms of tuberculosis works. 36 projects for the prevention of HIV infection are carried out in 34 regions. “Of course, I would like to hope that the loan will still be taken and our pilot projects will be continued as part of the loans of the World Bank,” says Natalya Vasilieva. “We believe that the problem is acute: tuberculosis is the main cause of HIV -infected death because it develops against the background of weakened immunity. These two infections are very closely related to the number of HIV -infected and promoted and the spread of the spread of HIV -GENED. Tuberculosis.

The New York Institute of Health works with the Ministry of Justice in the framework of the program "Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis in Russia". An employee of this institute Oksana Ponomarenko believes that the Ministry of Justice of the Credit is certainly needed. The incidence in prisons is very high, and there is no money for medicine, nor for laboratory research, nor for teaching doctors recommended by the World Health Organization and accepted around the world. “We built our program, hoping that a lot of money would come from the World Bank and we will be able to continue work,” Ms. Ponomarenko says. “And we hope that Mr. Soros will be able to somehow move the case. Negotiations have been underway for two years, it is probably time to make some decisions. We and the Ministry of Justice have been waiting for this money, we will just insulted the project.”