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When Ambivalence Kills: The West and International HIV Relief in Post-Socialist Russia

Cotrell, Brittany Marie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366143332

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2013, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Slavic and East European Studies.
HIV/AIDS has reached epidemic proportions in the Russian Federation. Further, the acquired-immune disorder threatens multiple generations of people. In a country as technologically and economically developed as Russia, why is this infection flourishing? As a whole, this work attempts to answer this public health conundrum. In part, my research constitutes a small piece of an enormous wealth of scholarship regarding internal affects on HIV such as stigma, faulty drug laws, and the limits imposed on domestic NGOs by Russian tax laws. Additionally, I provide evidence suggesting that internationally-funded NGOs exacerbate existing conditions through their use of culturally ignorant funding practices and alienating messages which can render NGO facilities unattainable or undesirable for those individuals at risk or already infected. In this work, I argue that the ambivalence inherent in the relationship between the West and Russia constitutes the largest inhibitor to HIV/AIDS relief because it leads to the expulsion of NGOs from the country entirely, causes unnecessary military spending that could otherwise be devoted to healthcare expansion, and prevents the formation of an effective global governing body that has the resources to curb the epidemic.
Yana Hashamova (Advisor)
Kurt Stevenson (Committee Member)
East European Studies; Health Care; International Relations; Public Health; Russian History; Slavic Studies

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  • Cotrell, B. M. (2013). When Ambivalence Kills: The West and International HIV Relief in Post-Socialist Russia [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366143332

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cotrell, Brittany. When Ambivalence Kills: The West and International HIV Relief in Post-Socialist Russia . 2013. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366143332.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cotrell, Brittany. "When Ambivalence Kills: The West and International HIV Relief in Post-Socialist Russia ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366143332

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