• FridaVermercury@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 hours ago

    Just in case people are not reading the article and make assumptions this is about safe sex education, it isn’t:

    Experts describe violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules as the main cause of the infections, including the use of single-use catheters or glucometers on several patients. In such situations, the source is usually patients with undiagnosed infections.

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      14 hours ago

      This is somehow even more damning than lack of sex ed. It’s basically reversal of the last 100 years of medical progress towards single-use equipment.

      • KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org
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        8 hours ago

        Russian doctors do know how HIV is spreading. They do know that reusing single-use equipment is bad. If they are now starting to do that, this shows that there is a serious shortage of medical equipment in Russia.

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    14 hours ago

    HIV in Russia? Well, that’s impossible, since the official government position is that only teh gayz get HIV, and there aren’t any of those, since that’s illegal.

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    9 hours ago

    Russia has 83 regions and 6 which are generally considered to be part of Ukraine. So this is wide spread.

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      Wasn’t that a thing mentioned somewhere that a lot of russian soldiers are HIV positive? Or at least were at some point.