Russia Claims HIV Infection Rate Is Falling, but Experts Are Not so Sure

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Four years ago, while she was hospitalized because of Covid-19, the singer from Sankt Petersburg, Xenia Aleksandrova, was unexpectedly diagnosed with HIV. Known as the scene Neksusa, Aleksandrova, 23 years old, built a dedicated online community, with about 90,000 subscribers on YouTube and over 213,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Despite the persistent stigma surrounding HIV, she decided to reveal her diagnosis publicly, in an effort to incre…