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GLOBAL HEALTH Previous Volume 351:117-120 July 8, 2004 Number 2 Next

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As compared with most nations affected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc encountered the disease rather late. The first public announcement of cases of HIV infection in the former Soviet Union came in the mid-1980s and was greeted with denial and derision: many believed that AIDS could not happen there and that it must therefore be limited to homosexuals, drug addicts, and other "deviants," as well as black Africans and foreign tourists. Some believed that HIV was developed by the United States as part of the Cold War, to be "tested" . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Davis Center of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., and the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.

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