The growing HIV crisis in Russia, affecting mainly intravenous drug users, is being targeted by the Russian Orthodox Church as both a national health and spiritual issue, with church-run ministries and laypeople representing one of the few attempt to rehabilitate addicts.
Jarrett Zigon , HIV is God’s Blessing: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia
, University of California Press, 2010, 280 .
