Just in case people are not reading the article and make assumptions this is about safe sex education, it isn’t:
Experts describe violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules as the main cause of the infections, including the use of single-use catheters or glucometers on several patients. In such situations, the source is usually patients with undiagnosed infections.
This is somehow even more damning than lack of sex ed. It’s basically reversal of the last 100 years of medical progress towards single-use equipment.
Russian doctors do know how HIV is spreading. They do know that reusing single-use equipment is bad. If they are now starting to do that, this shows that there is a serious shortage of medical equipment in Russia.
I’ll just add that it may also simply be Soviet heritage of doctoral negligence. Fucking dentists, for example, didn’t properly sanitize their tools and were one of the main reasons of Hepatitis A spread. Most older folks in my family had some (thankfully mostly minor) medical issues, caused by Soviet medicine being utter shit.
People in Trump’s administration do not be believe in germ “theory”.
So basically we are seeing the first signs of Russia’s economy’s collapse.
HIV in Russia? Well, that’s impossible, since the official government position is that only teh gayz get HIV, and there aren’t any of those, since that’s illegal.
also a huge alcohol problem, to keep the men stupid and complacent.
Putin is doomed, all signs of what’s to come.
Russia has 83 regions and 6 which are generally considered to be part of Ukraine. So this is wide spread.
Wasn’t that a thing mentioned somewhere that a lot of russian soldiers are HIV positive? Or at least were at some point.
