Hate and discrimination lead to a ‘catastrophic’ rise of HIV in Russia.

Sylvia Urban of the umbrella group German AIDS Service Organization described the massive spread of HIV in Russia as “catastrophic.” According to Russian government data, more than 100,000 people contracted the virus in Russia in 2016. During the same period in Germany, which has half as many residents, the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin registered just over 3,400 new infections.

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