Although the HIV numbers in Russia are doubtful, the Kremlin has now also declared the AIDS base of the British musician Elton John as an unwanted organization.
The UN program for HIV and AIDS reported last year about a worrying development of HIV figures in Eastern Europe and Central -Asia. Although the new infections have decreased worldwide, they have mainly increased in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Russia is mainly hit by new ones.
The Elton John AIDS Foundation has been devoting itself to the fight against HIV and AIDS worldwide for decades. According to her own statements, it has also supported partners in Ukraine for more than 20 years. Since the start of the war in 2022, it has made more than four million US dollars available.
The Kremlin is now struggling that the organization behaves negatively on a policy that “defends traditional spiritual and moral values”. The classification as an unwanted organization is the same in Russia.
Since the beginning of military special surgery – as the aggression war against Ukraine is officially called in Russia – the foundation of the superstar has participated in a campaign of the West to dispute Russia, the attorney general in Moscow complained.
The aim of the foundation is to support associations for AIDS prevention and fighting, it continued. “But to a greater extent, they are focused on propaganda of non -traditional sexual relationships, Western family models and gender conversions.”
More than a million people in Russia HIV positive
Against the background of the enormous number of infections, this decision is of course particularly bitter. About 1.2 million people in Russia currently lived with HIV, the Russian epidemiologist Wadim Pokrowski described in December from the Russian news agency Interfax. For comparison: the Robert Koch Institute recently appreciated the number in Germany to 96,700 people. Criminalization and discrimination of endangered groups make prevention and the fight against AIDS in Russia.
Source: Krone
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