For World AIDS Day, which is celebrated on December 1, LGBT organizations and initiatives in thirteen Russian cities will hold the #Test Ourselves campaign to remind gay, bisexual and transgender residents of Russia of the need for regular HIV testing. LGBT people in Murmansk, Krasnodar, Orenburg, Pskov, Arkhangelsk, Ufa, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Irkutsk, Tyumen, St.

In Voronezh, the applicants of the picket against HIV stigmatization of the gay community, Viola Andrushchuk and Olga Muzyka, received a warning from the administration. It says that holding the event may violate the law “On the Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development.” In addition, Muzyka is receiving threats from the Voronezh Region Ministry of Internal Affairs, reports OVD-Info.

Tomorrow, December 1, the world celebrates International AIDS Day. Our readers told us about how and when they first encountered HIV, and how their attitude towards the virus changed. Evgeniy, 35 years old, HIV positive When I myself did not have HIV, I treated people with such a diagnosis with contempt. I perceived them as leprosy, I could not be in the same room with them. I was disgusted with them, I was afraid of getting infected.