Inadequate Fight Against Drugs Hampers Russia’s Ability to Curb H.I.V.

The article “Inadequate Fight Against Drugs Hampers Russia’s Ability to Curb H.I.V.” by Michael Schwirtz is about how Russia fails to control people abusing drugs and the spread of H.I.V. The failure to lower the number of drug users in Russia is causing the number of people with H.I.V positive to increase. The main cause of the newly infected is intravenous drug use and having sex with addicts. Although the government increased the spending on H.I.V drugs and expand prevention programs, government programs often became ensnared in Russia’s large and inefficient bureaucracies. The link to the article is http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/world/europe/17russia.html?_r=1&