RESOUR> [NetGold] MEDICAL: DISEASES: AIDS HIV ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY : RUSSIA: The AIDS Epidemic in Russia

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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:28:05 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: [NetGold] MEDICAL: DISEASES: AIDS HIV ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY :
    RUSSIA: The AIDS Epidemic in Russia



MEDICAL: DISEASES: AIDS HIV ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY : RUSSIA: The AIDS
Epidemic in Russia

At last, Russia faces AIDS
Epidemic: Amid prejudice and government indifference, a disease that once
mainly infected addicts has spread quickly.
<http://www.sunspot.net/news/health/bal-te.
journal16oct16,0,5105017.column?coll=bal-health-headlines>

A shorter URL for the above news report:

<http://snurl.com/2pe8>

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, came late to Russia, arriving only with
the economic and social collapse of the 1990s. And it came mostly as an
infection passed among intravenous drug users, through the sharing of
needles.

For a decade, the disease incubated silently, all but ignored by
authorities. But in recent years, Russia has begun seeing its first
significant number of AIDS cases. And the disease has burst from the
netherworld of drug users.

Hundreds of HIV-infected children are born to infected mothers each month.
And the human immunodeficiency virus is increasingly being transmitted
through sexual contact, often between heterosexuals. (In 2001, only one
out of 25 new cases was sexually transmitted. Last year, the figure jumped
to one in eight.)

AIDS experts here estimate that 1.5 million people are infected - about 1
percent of Russia's population - and that this figure could more than
quadruple, to more than 7 million, in the next five years. The number now
infected is about 650,000 more than in the United States, which has twice
the population.

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Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003. Page 9
New NGO to Target Russia's Health Problems
By J. Quinn Martin
Special to The Moscow Times
<http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/10/08/018.html>

The statistics are grim. On average, Russians older than 15 drink half a
bottle of vodka a day. Seventy percent of Russian men and about 35
percent of women smoke. The country has one of the fastest-growing rates
of HIV infection in the world. Life expectancy for men has dipped below
60 years of age.

Faced with these and other equally troubling numbers, a new NGO recently
launched a major campaign to improve Russia's national health.

Backed by a $25 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International
Development, or USAID, the Healthy Russia campaign will appeal directly
to the Russian people to change their behavior. The specific aims are to
improve mother and infant health, to convince teenagers to make healthier
lifestyle choices, and to curb the spread of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.

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UN: New Report Shows Progress Fighting HIV/AIDS, But Member Nations
Falling Short Of Goals
By Nikola Krastev
<http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2003/09/23092003154429.asp>

Although the UN report highlights the lack of response in many key areas,
it does point to progress on some fronts. Of the more than 100 countries
surveyed, 93 percent have set up comprehensive nationwide HIV/AIDS
strategies and national bodies to coordinate responses, and 88 percent
have increased public awareness through media campaigns, school-based AIDS
education and peer education programs.

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Time is GMT + 8 hours
Posted: 23 September 2003 0829 hrs
World leaders call for new war on HIV/AIDS
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/americas/view/49682/1/.html>

Addressing 136 world leaders and ministers at a special General Assembly
session on AIDS on Monday, Mr Annan said new reports show that the world
is falling woefully behind the goals set at a Millennium Summit three
years ago.

These goals include having three million HIV-positive people in the
developing world taking AIDS drugs by 2005 and halting and reversing the
epidemic by 2015.

But only a fraction of that number in developing nations now have access
to drugs.

UNAIDS, the agency responsible for coordinating global AIDS-fighting
efforts, outlined shortfalls on numerous fronts.

These include little access to lifesaving drugs, preventing discrimination
and curbing mother-to-child transmissions of the disease.

The statistics remain grim.

About 65 million people have contracted AIDS in the last 20 years and 28
million are dead.

And experts say the epicentre of the disease is shifting to Asia, China
and Russia.

To combat this epidemic, the UN says, what is needed is not just
additional funding but a stronger political will.

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30 Sep 2003 16:25:08 GMT
Aid agency warns Russia of untreatable TB epidemic
By Sonia Oxley
Reuters Foundation AlertNet
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L3067862.htm>

MOSCOW, Sept 30 (Reuters) - A leading medical aid agency warned Russia on
Tuesday that it might face an epidemic of a new strain of untreatable
tuberculosis if it did not change its methods of fighting the disease.

Highly contagious TB, which attacks the lungs, is widespread in Russia's
cramped prisons and is rapidly becoming immune to the drugs used to treat
it, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.

The Russian Health Ministry has failed to approve a new World Health
Organisation-backed programme that aims to stop the development of a
strain of TB -- a disease that quickly forms defences against drugs --
becoming resistant to all treatment.

"If not properly addressed, this epidemic may very quickly become an
epidemic of a super-resistant form of TB that has no cure," the Belgian
branch of MSF said in a statement at a news conference.

"The consequences to individual lives and the whole society will be
catastrophic."

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Tackling Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Russia
Russia experiencing one of the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics
<http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20102994~
menuPK:34457~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html>

A shorter URL for the above article:

<http://snurl.com/2ped>

April 7, 2003The World Bank approved a $150 million loan to the Russian
Federation for the Tuberculosis (TB) and AIDS Control Project, which will
help Russia protect its population and economy from uncontrolled epidemics
of TB, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. It will support
the Governments Federal Program on "Prevention and Control of Social
Diseases, 2002-2006."

"The rapidly growing number of people infected with TB and HIV pose
daunting challenges to the country's social and economic development. This
project is a sign of the Government's commitment to starting a more
vigorous attack on these diseases," says Julian Schweitzer, World Bank
Country Director for Russia.

This first-ever countrywide TB and HIV/AIDS project in Russia comes at a
crucial juncture, since the country is experiencing one of the worlds
fastest-growing HIV/AIDS epidemics that threatens the health of its
citizens and the economy.

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Full news reports may be read at the URLs above.


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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