A young patient plays with a toy truck in an infectious diseases hospital in Moscow. Fewer than half of Russians with HIV are taking antiretroviral drugs, in part because of a conspiracy theory that the Aids-causing virus is a myth invented by the West. Photo: Agence France-Presse
Russia’s HIV epidemic is fuelled by virus deniers, who think it’s all a Western hoax
Fewer than half of the 900,000 Russians with HIV are taking antiretroviral drugs
A young patient plays with a toy truck in an infectious diseases hospital in Moscow. Fewer than half of Russians with HIV are taking antiretroviral drugs, in part because of a conspiracy theory that the Aids-causing virus is a myth invented by the West. Photo: Agence France-Presse
