AIDS crisis brewing in Crimea and east Ukraine says UN
Paris (AFP) Jan 21, 2015 - A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where injecting drug users have lost access to therapy to wean them off heroin, the UN's AIDS envoy said Wednesday. Out of 805 people in Crimea who before annexation were receiving opioid substitution therapy (OST) - a tried and tested UN-backed treatment - "between 80 and 100" have now died, Michel K ... more

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