MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will undo good progress in combating HIV/AIDS and miss the chance to stem the epidemic if it does not offer more help to people who inject themselves with drugs, U.N. AIDS chief Peter Piot said on Saturday. Piot also warned Russia and Ukraine of a rise in the proportion of women infected with the HIV virus who neither inject drugs nor work as prostitutes -- a segment of the population previously considered less vulnerable. After Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia the former Soviet Union has the highest number of people who carry the HIV virus...
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