Posted on 02/18/2020 12:30:47 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Russians flocked to Google for information about HIV tests after an influential YouTubers documentary shed light on the scale of the countrys HIV epidemic this week.
Journalist Yury Duds two-hour documentary addresses what he refers to as an ignored issue that affects each and every one of his millions of subscribers. Almost 8 million people viewed Duds HIV documentary in the 48 hours since it went online Tuesday.
We filmed this episode to add knowledge and make life a little easier for those with HIV, Dud says in the video.
The number of searches for Russian-language terms relating to HIV tests was up by a combined 5,500% around the world by Wednesday evening, according to a Google Trends screenshot shared by Ukrainian HIV campaigner Inna Gavrilova. She attributes the spike in users interest to Duds popularity.
HIV was Russias second-most-searched term on Tuesday, the day Duds documentary came out.
More than 1 million people in Russia live with HIV and a record 37,000 people died from HIV-related illnesses there in 2019.
The World Health Organization warned that Russia risked developing an out-of-control HIV epidemic after data showed a record number of new cases in 2017. Most came from heterosexual sex as the disease spread outside high-risk groups.
Russias Health Ministry has argued that the increase in Russia's HIV-positive population indicates that fewer people die from complications linked with the disease.
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Wait, I thought Putin said there were no homos in Russia.
Not sure what the state of the art is in these areas are these days
though. It may not be as bad as this makes it sound, with new technologies
possibly having been implemented.
No, he said homosexual marriage wouldn’t be legalised.
Perhaps that decision was made due to national health reasons rather than moral or ethical ones.
The vast majority of HIV-cases in Russia are among people shooting drugs in late 1990s heroin boom.
Yep. Poland was having a problem during the time we visited.
Wow that’s awful.
Homosexuality exists in Eastern Europe but not widespread and the homosexuals seem like more responsible. Their input in HIV problem is minor.
Heroin addicts are mostly responsible and since they are largely asocial it rarely expands outside their group.
Not to mention in Russia the herion boom has finally caused draconian legal response. It would be correct to say that the police wiped out heroin dealers as a class like 15 to 10 years ago and you don’t see addicts anymore too.
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., one out of 15-20 residents aged 15 to 60 is HIV+.
LOL! I need to print some copies of that.
Let’s say that the effects of HIV are indeed fatal. Before advanced anti-virus therapy it killed a number of people.
It still kills people who can’t afford therapy.
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