Elton John, one of the most famous British pop artists, will perform his free charity show in Ukraine’s capital Kiev on June 16. The concert is aimed to support Ukrainian children suffering from HIV/AIDS. The show will last for about 2,5 hours and will take place on the central square of Kiev.
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June 11, 2007The government approved a new draft program Thursday to fight AIDS, HIV, diabetes, tuberculosis and other diseases partly blamed for Russia’s steadily declining population, a spokeswoman said.
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February 23, 2007Russia on Wednesday denounced as “exceedingly cruel†the death sentences passed by a Libyan court on six foreign medics convicted of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS, the Reuters news agency reported.
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December 20, 2006Dozens of believers lit candles and joined in a prayer service in a small Russian Orthodox church in Moscow on Friday to mark World AIDS Day, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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December 4, 2006
There are currently 362,000 people in Russia including 2,322 children registered with HIV, the virus causing the AIDS, the country’s chief sanitary doctor said Thursday.
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November 30, 2006The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for Security Mikhail Grishankov reported that Russia is going to increase state allocations to fight AIDS by 15 percent next year.
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November 8, 2006A Russian court ordered a regional blood bank Monday to pay thousands of dollars to a young woman who contracted AIDS through a transfusion.
The woman, who received a transfusion at a maternity hospital, could get 10 million rubles ($373,000).
The blood bank served a network of hospitals in the Voronezh region southwest of Moscow. A regular donor who was HIV-positive allegedly gave blood eight times before the virus was detected.
While blood products with HIV may have gone to 200 recipients, only one case of AIDS has been detected so far.
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October 31, 2006
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