Methadone Clinics Help Ukraine Succeed on HIV Prevention
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Ukraine is checking the spread of HIV for the first time in more than a decade by handing out methadone and clean needles to drug users, measures long embraced in the U.S. yet still opposed in neighboring Russia.
More than 8,300 people were receiving substitution therapy to keep them off injected drugs as of Dec. 1, more than all the other nations of the former Soviet Union combined, according to the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine, which supports many of the nation’s clinics with money from the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.