1. Ukraine: Part of a series of three stories revealing the complexities of living with HIV in east Europe. Published in The Black Sea “I tried to escape from heroin in the city to my grandparents in the countryside – but there was the source of the drug. That’s where I think I contracted HIV,” says ex-user […]
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2. Moldova: Part of a series of three stories revealing the complexities of living with HIV in eastern Europe. Published in The Black Sea “You don’t meet many couples where one is injecting drugs and the other is clean,” says Gary from Balti, Moldova Visual by Andrei Cotrut “My outer appearance has changed. If I brought […]
3. Romania: Part of a series of three stories from east Europe revealing the complex lives of people with HIV, published in The Black Sea and TOTB. “I am not a victim,” says communication specialist Monica from Bucharest, “but a person was has survived and can have a normal and healthy life.” Visual by Andrei […]
Meeting the mothers with HIV who refuse doctors’ recommendations to abort their babies in Ukraine and Moldova. A feature published in The Black Sea and EU Observer I meet Svetlana in a cafe in central Kyiv. She is 38 years old and a month away from giving birth to her first child. “Finding I was pregnant […]
Fornication has overtaken drug use as the main route of transmission for new cases of HIV in Moldova – The country needs a deep and meaningful conversation about sex – a feature published on The Black Sea and Moldova.org After losing his job as a barman in Moldova’s capital of Chisinau, 26 year-old Ivan found […]
A feature on the rise in HIV in Romania among drug users published in UK charity Drugscope’s magazine Druglink in March/April 2013 http://www.drugscope.org.uk/publications In Romania, following a switch from heroin to legal highs among injecting drug users, new cases of HIV have boomed By Michael Bird Cristi is dressed in a baseball cap, with holes […]
An investigation into how a funding crisis for NGOs carrying out direct care on the street for heroin addicts could provoke a rise in new cases of HIV In Bucharest, Romania. Since this article appeared, its predictions have sadly come true. In 2012 there was a 200 per cent increase in the the number of […]
An investigation into the one per cent of Bucharest’s population addicted to heroin for ‘The Diplomat – Bucharest’ magazine published in February 2008 – http://www.thediplomat.ro/reports_0208_2.php Invisible addiction With one per cent of Bucharest’s population addicted to heroin, ‘The Diplomat’ reports on a drug attacking poor communities and children as young as nine years old. Report […]
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