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MOSCOW – Many of the posts on the website Pereboi.ru – a chat room for Russians diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS – are alarming.

“Today my husband went to the clinic and they told him that they gave out all the medicine on Monday,” wrote Nelli from Ufa. “He went downtown and they told him they have no medicine and they aren’t getting any.”

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