US-Russia Volunteer Initiative (USRVI)

Stories from the Field

Alexander Kurenkov
The Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington, DC

Alexander Kurenkov at the Whitman-Walker Clinic

Alexander Kurenkov is a doctor who runs a medical clinic in Ryazan, Russia. As a USRVI volunteer, he had the opportunity to increase his knowledge of public health, by working with the Whitman-Walker Clinic, one of the nation’s leading HIV/AIDS service providers. He assisted in different areas of the clinic’s operation, providing administrative support to the Volunteer Resources Department, traveling with an HIV mobile testing unit to marginalized neighborhoods of Washington DC, assisting in providing medical service to people living with HIV/AIDS and getting involved in the organization’s fundraising efforts. He said, “This was an amazing educational experience. Whitman-Walker was a very useful host organization because they are running projects that I want to reproduce at my clinic.” Alexander will use the techniques he learned in the US to create the first dedicated HIV/AIDS hotline in Ryazan and to rganize an NGO to educate the city about public health issues.

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