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People living with HIV in at least 16 regions across Russia have been denied the viral load and immune status tests necessary for ensuring that antiretroviral therapy is effective. Since the beginning of the year, the civil society movement «Patient Control» has received at least 40 such complaints from regions including Samara, Tyumen, Kaluga, Orenburg, Rostov, Amur, Leningrad region, as well as the republics of Dagestan, Udmurtia, and Bashkortostan, Vedomosti reports.

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HIV-positive Russians from 16 regions report being denied tests necessary for antiretroviral therapy

People living with HIV in at least 16 regions across Russia have been denied the viral load and immune status tests necessary for ensuring that antiretroviral therapy is effective

The Insider (theins.ru)