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Stigma means Russia risks HIV epidemic as cases rise World news

Increased rate of new diagnoses in former Soviet Union runs against a global decline

Increased rate of new diagnoses in former Soviet Union runs against a global decline

Stigma around homosexuality and drug use means Russia and some former Soviet Union countries risk developing out-of-control HIV epidemics, experts have said, after data showed a record number of new cases last year.

Most new cases in the former Soviet Union in 2017 were from heterosexual sex as the disease spreads beyond high-risk groups, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

The increased rate of new diagnoses in the region since 2012 runs against a global decline and Masoud Dara, HIV specialist at the WHO, said it could be "an early indication of overspill in the general population".

"HIV starts off [in] key populations – meaning drug users, commercial sex workers and men having sex with men – but after that it [increases] exponentially ... if there is no more intervention," Dara said.

In Russia official data shows there were more than 104,000 new HIV diagnoses in 2017, taking total cases to more than 1.2 million. Experts have said this is probably an understatement.

"We don't have enough medication, we don't treat every patient," said Nikolay Lunchenkov, a doctor at the Moscow regional Aids centre. "We are increasing the number of people who receive antiretroviral therapy, but it's still not enough."

The number of HIV treatment courses bought by the Russian government rose 37% to about 360,000 last year according to the NGO Treatment Preparedness Coalition.

Methadone, which research has shown helps to prevent injecting drug users passing on HIV, is banned in Russia.

"We also don't have enough data about men who have sex with other men, because of high levels of stigma," said Lunchenkov, who is openly gay.

The number of Russian men who were infected with HIV through having sex with another man more than doubled to 695 between 2008 and 2015, according to official data.

Discrimination against LGBTI people means those at risk of HIV/Aids are afraid to seek out testing and treatment, experts say.

Russia was ranked Europe's second least LGBT-friendly nation in 2016 by ILGA-Europe, a network of European LGBT groups.

A requirement introduced in 2012 for some international NGOs working in Russia to register as "foreign agents" led to a decrease in organisations working with groups vulnerable to HIV, said Oli Stevens, a HIV researcher based in Britain.

"The message was very clear, MSM (men having sex with men) are not us, they are the other, they are not part of society we're trying to build," said Stevens.

In the rest of the former Soviet Union new cases of infected drug users have fallen 45% to 6,218 a year in a decade, while new cases of heterosexual transmission increased 59% to almost 18,000.

Activists blame widespread discrimination against LGBTI people for an eightfold rise in transmission among men having sex with men, to more than 1,000 cases annually.

"State-sponsored homophobia and transphobia [have become] a crucial issue," said Yuri Yoursky of the Eurasian Coalition on Male Health, which supports men with HIV/Aids in the region.

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BOMBSHELL EMAILS GAVE ROBERT MUELLER THE NEWS DONALD TRUMP FEARED WAS COMING - Duration: 11:29.

BOMBSHELL EMAILS GAVE ROBERT MUELLER THE NEWS DONALD TRUMP FEARED WAS COMING

Robert Mueller's Russia witch hunt is nearing a conclusion.

The special counsel's scheme to overthrow the President is pressing ahead at breakneck

pace.

And some bombshell emails gave Mueller the news Donald Trump feared was coming.

Mueller Turns the Screws on Investigative Journalist

Investigative journalist Jerome Corsi rejected a plea deal from Mueller's team.

Mueller wanted him to plead guilty to lying to investigators.

The plea deal stated:

During the interview, CORSI said that in the summer of 2016 an associate ("Person1")

who CORSI understood to be in regular contact with senior members of the Trump Campaign,

including with then-candidate Donald J. Trump, asked CORSI to get in touch with Organization

1about materials it possessed relevant to the presidential campaign that had not already

been released.

CORSI thereafter knowingly and intentionally made the following materially false statements

during the interview.

Mueller then outlined three lies Corsi allegedly told.

Corsi claimed he turned down Person 1's – who is known to be Roger Stone – request.

He also said Stone never asked him to get in touch with Person 2 – who is conservative

author Ted Malloch – who lived in London and asked him to go the Ecuadorian embassy

and meet with Assange.

Finally, Corsi said he never passed any information about WikiLeaks plans to Stone.

Mueller claimed these were all lies based on Corsi's emails.

On August 2nd, Corsi wrote Stone "Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps," he

continued.

"One shortly after I'm back.

2nd in Oct.

Impact planned to be very damaging."

On July 25th, Stone wrote Corsi "Get to (Assange) [a]t Ecuadorian Embassy in London

and get the pending (WikiLeaks) emails."

Emails Not the Bombshell Mueller Hoped For Corsi rejected the agreement because he said

he did not knowingly lie.

He said his misstatements were the result of faulty memory and he did not have the ability

to review his emails before Mueller interviewed him.

Corsi also stated Mueller asked him to commit a felony fabricating testimony that he was

a conduit between WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign.

He strongly denied ever speaking with Assange or an intermediary.

The fake news media played these emails up like they were the smoking gun that proved

Russian collusion.

But they were far from that.

The FBI interviewed Malloch about visiting the Ecuadorian embassy.

He told them he never did.

Considering that all visitors must be logged in, it would be easy to prove he was lying.

He has not been charged with doing so.

In addition, all these emails show is that Stone and Corsi discussed WikiLeaks.

There is no email evidence that puts either one in contact with WikiLeaks or Julian Assange.

Corsi's tweets and emails to Stone in October 2016 also indicate Corsi had no knowledge

on the contents of the emails WikiLeaks planned to drop.

He said Assange would look like a fool if they released nothing.

When WikiLeaks delayed the release of the emails, Corsi claimed it was because he had

nothing.

Corsi's communications with Stone show they were interested in knowing what WikiLeaks

had on Clinton.

The entire political world wanted to know that back in 2016.

But what they do not show is any coordination or collusion with Russia or WikiLeaks.

We will keep you up to date on any new developments in this ongoing story.