Lessons Not Learned:
Human Rights Abuses and HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation

1. SUMMARY
   
   
2. RECOMMENDATIONS
   
   For the government of the Russian Federation
   
   On HIV/AIDS
   On narcotic drugs and drug users
   In law enforcement
   
   For international donors and multilateral agencies
   
   
3. METHODS
   
   
4. BACKGROUND
   
   HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation
   Risk factors and government action
   Narcotic drug use in Russia
   Narcotic drug policy in Russia: Recent developments
   
   
5. FINDINGS OF HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH’S INVESTIGATION
   
   Introduction
   Official actions on HIV/AIDS in Saint Petersburg
   Impediments to HIV prevention for injection drug users
   
   National and international law and HIV prevention among drug users
   
   Other harassment and abuse of drug users and sex workers in the law enforcement system
   
   National and international law related to these abuses
   
   HIV prevention in prison
   
   Human rights and international standards on HIV/AIDS and drug use in prison
   
   Discrimination against drug users in health services
   Discrimination against people with AIDS and public knowledge and attitudes about AIDS
   
   Human rights and international and national standards
   
   High-level political commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS and related human rights abuses
   
   
6. CONCLUSION
   
   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

April 2004     Vol. 16, No. 5 (D)