18/04/08

Canada could inject sense into Ukraine’s HIV response

A Canadian group has just been holding a pow-wow on HIV prevention in Ukraine. The 20% and 50% of the Ukrainians who inject drugs are infected with HIV. (pdf) It’s great that Winnipeg’s International Center for Infectious Diseases is hosting this meeting. But here’s hoping Ukrainian participants also close their ears to the Harper government’s war-on-drugs rhetoric and find time to go visit some of the members of the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network.

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This post was published on 18/04/08 in Science.

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