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UNAIDS - 18 November 2009
More than 30 contemporary artists, photographers, and musicians from Russia, the United States, Japan, Greece and Spain offered their work for the charitable exhibition-sale held at the Central House of Artists from 12 - 26 November 2009. Last year, funds raised during the exhibition-sale went to children living with HIV at the Vsevolozhsk Orphanage in Leningrad Oblast.
There is increasing political and financial commitment for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care in Russia, even in the face of a global financial crisis. The country is set to increase the number of people on antiretroviral treatment by 50,000 in 2009. Through this exhibition, artists, photographers and musicians are helping to speak openly about HIV and to draw the attention of the wider public towards this issue.
Earlier in October during the 3rd HIV/AIDS Conference in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidib said that there has been progress in the region with many countries set to achieve universal access target goals. But the UNAIDS head also noted that the AIDS epidemic continues to outpace the response as the estimated number of adults and children living with HIV in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region has doubled since 2001.
Injecting drug use is the main mode of HIV transmission across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. HIV prevention among drug users and their sexual partners is a vital component of an evidence-informed response. Although the HIV epidemic in the Russian Federation is the largest in the region, there are rising numbers in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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Russian Federation - http://www.unaids.org/en/CountryResponses/Countries/russian_feder ation.asp
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Children and orphans - http://www.unaids.org/en/PolicyAndPractice/KeyPopulations/ChildAn dOrphans/default.asp
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Feature stories:
"Artists Against AIDS" help fight stigma and discrimination in Russia (17 November 2008) - http://www.aegis.org/news/unaids/2008/UN081114.html
All-Russian Union of People Living with HIV (09 July 2009) - http://www.aegis.org/news/unaids/2009/UN090713.html
"Art for AIDS" receives Keith Haring sculptures (27 November 2008) - http://www.aegis.org/news/unaids/2008/UN081122.html
"Stars against AIDS" in Eastern Europe (19 May 2008) - http://www.aegis.org/news/unaids/2008/UN080508.html
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