Positively Abandoned
Synopsis
As Russia's HIV/AIDS epidemic spreads, thousands of HIV-positive mothers and their children face pervasive discrimination and abuse. This 41-page report focuses on the discrimination that these women face, as do their children, many of whom are abandoned to the care of the state. Today, as Russia's escalating HIV/AIDS epidemic reaches beyond high-risk groups to the general population, a growing number of expectant mothers and infants have been placed in the path of the virus. Since the Federal AIDS Center in Moscow first started recording these statistics annually in 1997, nearly 10,000 HIV-positive women have given birth, the vast majority of whom had their children since 2002.
- Copyright:
- 2005 Human Rights Watch
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- Publisher:
- Human Rights Watch
- Date of Addition:
- 2009-09-09T23:40:29Z
- Language:
- English
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- This is a copyrighted book.