Russia: launch of HIV prevention hotline
A hotline for the prevention of HIV has opened in Russia
24.11.2025
Article published on the ASI website
The launch of the hotline coincides with World AIDS Day, which is celebrated on 1 December.
Rospotrebnadzor (the Russian Federal Service for the Protection of Health and Consumer Rights) is launching a large-scale information campaign that will involve the operation of an All-Russian HIV prevention hotline from 24 November to 5 December. During the campaign, specialists from regional Rospotrebnadzor offices will answer citizens’ questions about HIV prevention measures and provide information about free and anonymous testing.
To contact the experts, you need to call the phone numbers published on the websites of the agency’s regional offices.
In August this year, it was revealed that people living with HIV in at least 16 regions of Russia have been unable to have tests for viral load and immune status since the start of 2025. From January to August, the ‘Patient Control’ movement received about 40 such complaints from the Samara, Tyumen, Kaluga, Orenburg, Rostov, Leningrad and other oblasts.
Also in August, Vladimir Gushchin, head of the epidemiology department of the Gamaleya National Research Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Russian Health Ministry, reported that the centre was developing a vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) using an mRNA platform.
