Conference "Prison and HIV"

On November 27, the A. Sakharov Museum and Public Center (Zemlyanoy Val, 57, building 6) will host a conference “ Prison and HIV: is there a chance to survive?” »

The conference is dedicated to the memory of Vasily Aleksanyan.

Start at 10 o'clock. The problems of the problem of HIV-positive prisoners and the prevention of the spread of HIV in prisons will be discussed.

Conference organizers: Fund "In Defense of the Rights of Prisoners", Moscow Helsinki Group, All-Russian Movement "For Human Rights", Fund "Social Partnership", Center for the Promotion of Criminal Justice Reform, "Institute of Human Rights", Institute of Modern Russia.

“The irresponsible attitude of the state towards this category of citizens is one of the most terrible misfortunes of Russian reality,” the conference announcement says. “AIDS and tuberculosis are diseases taken under state and public control throughout the civilized world and have long ceased to be a taboo or stigma. However, in Russia does not pay due attention to this problem. It is not customary to talk about this. Few people know about it. All we can do is remember the problems of such people in prison. The most famous tragedy is Vasily Aleksanyan, who died only from the fact that he "Standard treatment for AIDS was denied. But there are 55,000 such sick people in penitentiary institutions, according to the Federal Penitentiary Service. This is 10% of HIV patients in the Russian Federation. Of these, only one in 12 receives antiretroviral therapy. And the situation with the incidence in the FSIN system is getting worse every year."