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Daria Sukharchuk is a journalist based in Berlin, where she works as a news anchor for Russian-language OstWest.tv. Her writing has appeared in Motherboard and ZEIT Online, Cosmopolitan, as well as Afisha (Moscow's leading city magazine). She specializes on the topic of human rights, migration, and mental health.
She has her BA in Chinese history, and, never having forgotten her history background, has also contributed to the educational project1917.com.
HIV Is Spreading In Russia, But The Government Is Doing Little To Stop It
In 2016, the number of officially registered HIV patients in Russia reached a million. In Russia, the most common route of infection is through needles, but the government is not implementing any harm reduction measures such as needle exchange, injection rooms or methadone programmes, and is often blocking private initiatives that try to do this, thus allowing the virus to spread.
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