A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where heroin users have lost access to therapy to wean them off the drug, the U.N.’s AIDS envoy said Wednesday. Out of 805 people in Crimea who before the annexation were receiving opioid substitution therapy (OST), a tried and tested U.N.-backed treatment, […]
The post Crimea, eastern Ukraine face AIDS epidemic, U.N. says appeared first on The Japan Times. …read more
Source: The Japan Times
