| Artists in Russia come together to spread awareness about HIV
UNAIDS and the All-Russian Union of People Living with HIV came together for the second time to support the international project Art Against AIDS that unites well-known artists in the response to the HIV epidemic in Russia. This year, proceeds from the sale of art at the exhibition went to low-income families raising children living with HIV. |
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| Foreign Ideas Nixed In Fight Against HIV
Russia will create its own programs rather than borrow ideas from abroad to fight the biggest HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe, the country’s top epidemiologist, Gennady Onishchenko, told an AIDS conference Wednesday. |
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| HIV Epidemic in the World is Decreasing
-The situation is positive, but it should not give us a reason for tranquility, -says Michele Sidibe, Deputy Executive Director of UNAIDS.- Testing still reveals a large number of new cases of HIV. The virus strikes 7,000 people in the world daily. Also daily we register 6,000 new deaths of AIDS. For this reason, one can say that this is the most important social, economic and political issue in the world. It is comforting to know that the number of people who have access to medical assistance is growing. While 3-4 years ago their number amounted to 500,000, now we can speak of 3 million. 7 million of HIV infected need treatment. |
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| UN Secretary General Message
MESSAGE ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD AIDS DAY. 1 December 2006 |
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