In 27 regions of the Russian Federation, the immunodeficiency virus is spreading among the entire population, not only risk groups, according to the latest Rospotrebnadzor data. People increasingly pass the virus to one another, often unaware they are infected.
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.
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.
Just in case people are not reading the article and make assumptions this is about safe sex education, it isn’t:
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.