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A specter is haunting Russia—the specter of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) and HIV (the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, which generally leads to AIDS). HIV/AIDS has put the people of the Russian Federation at grave risk, and both the government and ordinary citizens are doing far too little to combat this problem. The only question today is whether the country is on the brink of an epidemic or, instead, is in the midst of one.
Time does not wait, and history will not forgive.
—Meditsinskaia gazeta, 11 November 1994
It is obvious that, at the present time, both the government and parliament find it more interesting to discuss how to help the victims of financial pyramid schemes than the victims of HIV-infection.
—Meditsinskaia gazeta, 5 November 1997
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For an early criticism of the view that HIV in Russia was spread primarily through sexual contacts, and a suggestion that the real problem was multiuse, inadequately sterilized hypodermics, see John R. Seale and Zhores A. Medvedev, “Origin and Transmission of AIDS: Multi-use Hypodermics and the Threat to the Soviet Union: Discussion Paper,” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 80 (May 1987): 201–204.
Christopher Williams, AIDS in Post-Communist Russia and its Successor States (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1995), 87.
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Powell, D.E. (2000). The Problem of AIDS. In: Field, M.G., Twigg, J.L. (eds) Russia’s Torn Safety Nets. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62712-7_7
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