Russia's Justice Ministry blacklists second HIV-prevention nonprofit this week. Another “foreign agent.”
Russia’s Ministry of Justice has added the Andrei Rylkov Foundation, a nonprofit organization involved in HIV and hepatitis prevention, to its “foreign-agents” registry. The foundation is the 134th nonprofit to be added to the list. Founded in 2009, the foundation takes a “harm-reduction” approach to working with drug addicts, aiming not to prohibit their harmful behavior, but to reduce its consequences (namely, the spread of diseases like HIV and hepatitis).