On World AIDS Day, one of the leading HIV experts Denis Godlevsky answered the questions of TD. - Since 2013, I have been working in the AIDS Assistance Fund. We have three main areas of work. The first is an express testing program. That is, using fast tests that give out the result within 15 minutes and which can be used in essence in any “field” conditions, this testing is as close as possible to people.

The Lavar Charitable Foundation donated an empty plot of land owned by the organization to the Victoria orphanage in Vladikavkaz. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Minister of State Property and Land Relations of North Ossetia Ruslan Tedeev. According to Tedeev, the management of the foundation transferred to the orphanage a plot of 14 acres adjacent to the territory of the educational institution. Victoria's management does not yet plan to build an additional residential building.

Nine women living with HIV infection decided to reveal their faces in order to at least contrast the stigmatization of “positive” Despite the fact that in the yard 2016, there is a huge amount of information on the topic of HIV, in Russia there is a rigid stigmatization of HIV-positive people, which leads to AIDS-dissidentia, which denies the existence of the virus, as well as to the self-stimulation and self-isolation of the virus carriers.

In Magadan, unknown vandals desecrated the “Mask of Sorrow” monument by Ernst the Neizvestny, dedicated to the victims of political repression, RIA Novosti reported , citing the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. The first reports of the vandals' actions appeared on Twitter: users posted pictures of the inscriptions that appeared on the memorial. On several sides of the monument it is written “Stalin is alive” in red spray paint, and a star is drawn on it.

During his annual address to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin stated the need for meaningful support for volunteer, charitable movements and non-profit organizations, Channel One broadcasts live. The President highly appreciated the participation of students and schoolchildren in volunteer movements to help elderly and sick people, care for nature and animals, as well as in local history and sports.

Children cannot stay in hospitals alone, they definitely need nannies We help hospital orphans collected 4 917 342 R required 4,709,000 r The collection of funds is over Once my son had to spend almost a day in hospital boxing. One. At four years old. It was an infectious department, and I was not supposed to stay in it in any way.

With the advent of a unified register of HIV-infected people in the country, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation will switch to centralized procurement of drugs for infected people, taking into account the treatment regimen of each patient, TASS reports with reference to the director of the department of drug supply and regulation of medical products of the department, Elena Maksimka. “We no longer have to order the drug separately from the patient.

An international team of scientists from Imperial College London has developed a polymer patch that will be used during heart muscle surgery, reports the journal Science Advances, which published the results of the study. In order to compensate for the consequences of a heart attack, which is the most common disease of the heart muscle, it is necessary to restore the patient’s normal heart rhythm.

The “Need Help” Foundation is launching a fundraiser for the “Equal Protects Equal” project , implemented by the non-profit partnership “E.V.A.” As part of the “Equal Protects Equal” project, people living with HIV, tuberculosis and viral hepatitis can receive free consultation. Peer consultants, also living with similar diseases, will help you understand the legislation and apply it correctly in order to receive state-guaranteed help.

A survey has appeared on the website of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, in which citizens are asked to answer whether they had to give bribes, and if so, in what situations. Respondents can offer their own options for solving problems, official representative of the department Alexander Kurennoy told Interfax.

In the Amur region, surgeons removed part of the genitals of a patient at the Blagoveshchensk City Clinical Hospital without appropriate medical indications. The police opened a criminal case under Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm). Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes about this. According to Deputy Regional Prosecutor Inna Chernushevich, the fact was revealed during the prosecutor's investigation.

The Association of Pediatric Anesthesiologists and Resuscitators (ODAR), together with the Children's Palliative Charitable Foundation, have developed a manual that will help parents protect their right to stay with their child in intensive care around the clock, Izvestia reports . By law, parents have the right to stay with their child in the intensive care unit. However, conflicts often arise with hospital administrations, which do not allow relatives to stay with children around the clock.

Surgeons at Clinical Oncology Dispensary No. 1 successfully operated on a woman who had previously been diagnosed with a 25-kilogram tumor. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Krasnodar Territory. A 41-year-old woman came to the oncology clinic with complaints of abdominal pain and an increase in its size.

Scientists at the Federal Scientific and Clinical Center for Physicochemical Medicine (FSC RCM) have learned to grow the retina from reprogrammed stem cells, the center’s general director, Vadim Govorun, told Izvestia. In their development, Russian scientists relied on the discovery of Nobel laureate Shinye Yamanaka, who discovered that it is possible to reprogram human cells back to an embryonic state, and then grow almost any tissue from such cells.

A resident of the Chelyabinsk region was planning to sell her kidney to pay off her loan debt, writes the Telefakt portal. The debt has already reached 500 thousand rubles. Vyacheslav Kurilin, an expert of the ONF project “For the Rights of Borrowers,” said that the debtor sent him a letter asking for help. She said that she withdrew 60 thousand rubles from her credit card, but then lost her job and was unable to pay.