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"On the Frontline of an Epidemic: The
Need for Urgency in Russia's Fight Against AIDS"
IREX and Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA) have teamed together to administer the Russian Parliamentary Working Group on AIDS. Funded by US Agency for International Development (USAID), the project aims to create a high-level coalition of members from the Russian State Duma and Federation Council—with broad membership across legislative committees and political parties—to support the development and strengthening of HIV/AIDS policy formulation in Russia. The Working Group will also act to marshal political parties into a consensus position on politically sensitive issues related to HIV/AIDS, raise awareness and facilitate collaboration among fellow parliamentarians and other officials at the national and local levels, and serve as a bridge to other sectors, including business, civil society, academia, the scientific community, and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Project Background
The Russian Federation has experienced an exceptionally steep rise in reported HIV infections. In less than eight years, new cases of HIV/AIDS infection have been reported in more than 30 cities and 86 of the country’s 89 regions. In the Russian Federation, the total number of reported HIV infections climbed to over 240,000 by mid-2003—a dramatic increase over the 10,993 reported less than five years earlier, at the end of 1998. Inaccurate official statistics do not reveal the reality of the crisis and leave plenty of room for number speculation. While current estimates of the HIV infected in Russia vary from 700,000 (UNAIDS) to 1.4 million (Russian Federal AIDS Center), experts agree that Russia has one of the fastest rates of infection in the world.
TPAA is an independent, nongovernmental organization that leverages the political, civic, scientific, and economic resources of North American, European, and Eurasian partners to combat the rapid and devastating spread of HIV/AIDS in Russia, Ukraine, and neighboring countries. For this project, TPAA is providing overall project design and content development. IREX is providing financial and administrative oversight.
This program is now completed.
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