Map: Worldwide scourge of HIV/AIDS

[Not a Cop]

Wtf 70% in Biysk?

it is drug transit center

[Hayalet]

The one thing the Middle East has better than the rest of the world.

Wtf 70% in Biysk?

It says 70% among people who inject drugs, not overall population.

[Not a Cop]

http://www.novokuznetsk.su/news/city/1321373149

About drug situation in Siberia and Russia generally

[Kazimiera]

HIV infection in US and Europe is usually drug-related, through shared needles. Whilst HIV in Africa is almost exclusively sexually transmitted.

[wvwvw]

Greece’s 200% increase in HIV

“Greece is an example of perhaps the worst case of austerity leading to public health disasters,” Mr. Stuckler explained in a telephone interview.

“After mosquito spraying programs were cut, we’ve seen a return of malaria, which the country has kept under control for the past four decades. New HIV infections have jumped more than 200 percent,” he noted.

Malaria returned because municipal governments lacked the funds to spray against mosquitoes. HIV spiked because government needle exchange programs ran out of clean syringes for heroin addicts. By Stuckler’s estimate, the average Greek junkie requires 200 clean needles in a given year.

“But now they’re only getting three a year each,” Stuckler said.

Athenian drug addicts sharing needles or malaria-carrying mosquitoes biting Spartans have put Greece in the media spotlight over the past few months. But a decidedly less headline-grabbing fact is this: cuts taken over the last two years could look even worse a few years from now.