Government center says Russia must adopt methadone and sex ed to stem HIV epidemic
Vadim Pokrovsky, the head the Russian Federal AIDS Center, announced today that Russia’s HIV epidemic has become a national security threat. Pokrovsky says 933,000 Russians have been infected with the disease since 1987. As many as 192,000 of these people have died, according to data from Rospotrebnadzor, a state monitoring agency. “In our country, there are 300 new cases of infection every day. I think we’ll get our millionth officially recorded case of HIV infection by the end of the year.