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Special report: In Russia, a glut of heroin and denial
In her one-room flat, as a small shelf of porcelain cats looks on and the smell of mold hangs in the air, Zoya pulls down the left shoulder of her black blouse and readies herself for her next hit. A...
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Ivan Anoshkin’s complaint to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health...
In 2011, Ivan Anoshkin, a drug user from Togliatti, Russia, sent a complaint to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health regarding the lack of evidence based drug treatment in Russia....
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Mobile access to health for drug users in Moscow – we ask you for help!
Dear friends, I am Anya Sarang, President of the Andrei Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice (ARF), and I need your help. ARF is the only organization in Moscow which offers people who use...
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Human Rights Activists Demand Release of Margarita Charykova
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View ArticlePrisons as a source of tuberculosis in Russia
Authors: Anya Sarang, Lucy Platt, Inna Vyshemirskaya and Tim Rhodes Source: NTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRISONER HEALTH, VOL. 12 NO. 1 2016 Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze poor...
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A recent decision in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) could have significant implications for an upcoming challenge against Russia’s ban on opioid substitution therapy (OST). In ruling issued...
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Why Russia’s Heroin Addicts Are Going Through Hell
Illustration: Angelica Alzona/Gizmodo Text: Emma Lantreev This week, an HIV epidemic has been officially declared in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, where the health department estimates 1 out of...
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Authors: Mikhail Golichenko and Sandra Ka Hon Chu Abstract An inherent feature of drug control in many countries has been an excessive emphasis on punitive measures at the expense of public health. At...
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