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Drug users fearing the worst as Russia takes over Crimea
Methadone program will end
By Laura Mills, The Associated Press April 5, 2014
...Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800 heroin addicts and other needle-drug users take part in methadone programs - seen as an important part of efforts to curb HIV infections by taking the patients away from hypodermic needles that can spread the AIDS-causing virus.
But Russia, which annexed Crimea in mid-March following a referendum held in the wake of Ukraine's political upheavals, bans methadone, claiming most supplies end up on the criminal market. The ban could undermine years of efforts to reduce the spread of AIDS in Crimea; some 12,000 of the region's 2 million people are HIV-positive, a 2012 UNICEF survey found.
After years of rapid growth in the infection rate, the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported the first decline in 201...
Drug users fearing the worst as Russia takes over Crimea
Methadone program will end
By Laura Mills, The Associated Press April 5, 2014
...Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800 heroin addicts and other needle-drug users take part in methadone programs - seen as an important part of efforts to curb HIV infections by taking the patients away from hypodermic needles that can spread the AIDS-causing virus.
But Russia, which annexed Crimea in mid-March following a referendum held in the wake of Ukraine's political upheavals, bans methadone, claiming most supplies end up on the criminal market. The ban could undermine years of efforts to reduce the spread of AIDS in Crimea; some 12,000 of the region's 2 million people are HIV-positive, a 2012 UNICEF survey found.
After years of rapid growth in the infection rate, the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported the first decline in 201...