How homophobia feeds Russia’s HIV epidemic.

Moscow, Russia, 27/05/2012. Russian nationalists attack gay rights demonstrators at an attempted gay pride parade in central Moscow. Several dozen people were arrested during clashes as Russian nationalists attacked gay rights activists during their seventh attempt to hold a gay pride parade in the Russian capital.

Condoms can’t protect you from HIV,” says Vladislav Ivanov, a 34-year-old hotel worker from Rostov-on-Don. He is one of an estimated 1.5 million people in Russia living with HIV. And because he is not receiving treatment, he is at a high risk of passing on the virus…

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