>Why does Russia have so much AIDS?
because they share needles
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Angel Nelson
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Elijah Walker
I'm thinking it's the heroin they get smuggled from the Central Asian countries.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Russia has pretty much nothing even resembling a healthcare system for drug addicts. No methadone clinics, no rehabs, literally they just send you to prison and hope for the best.
Poverty + lack of access to clean needles + isolation is what leads to shit like reusing dirty needles and getting HIV, also krokodil too.
Grayson Lee
>not accounting for population
Those statistics are fucking worthless.
Owen Scott
Because ROSSIYA # 1
Grayson Wood
The main reason is the state doesn't do anything because "eh who cares only junkies and gays die from this shit, less human trash is okay".
Isaiah Hughes
The graph is right there, even if you account for population Russia still has the most new AIDS per capita.
Andrew Price
you can't use "per capita" on Sup Forums because americans don't understand it
see: any thread about gun crime rates
Nathan Moore
But it means more and more innocent kids are being exposed to the AIDS epidemic, and now Sasha who was a good nationalist and planning to join the army is now hanging out with Yuri the krokodil brewer and is dying of HIV.
Or, maybe I guess, Russians just don't really care about other Russians
Jaxson Hernandez
>100k each year.
That is impossible.
Nathan Price
The US actually helped strengthen several supply routes from Afghanistan and elsewhere in the '90s, and this continues to this day. A key player in the would-be war on drugs needs to be Iran, and many NATO-country officials and diplomats refuse to even shake hands with their Iranian counterparts at international conferences and the like. Coupled with the disastrous collapse in order and morale in Russia in the '90s, this led to the current epidemic. Once introduced in a time of crisis, it's hard to eliminate something like this even in better times. Obviously, certain anti-social traits like the prevalence of prostitution don't help, but the main demographic in danger really is the lowest of the low, who were hardly going to have a long and fruitful life anyway.