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AFTER holding up obstinately Lrgainst avolley of criticism for 3 long months, theRussian government has finally buckleddown and scrapped its plans of introducing a law which would require foreignvisitors staying in Russia for more than3 months to undergo a compulsory screening for the HIV virus. The screening would have been followed by a certificate.
However, the health and foreign ministries failed to work out a mechanism for implementing the regulations. The citizens of Moscow, too, were openly sceptical, accusing the government of trying todivert their attention from the realissue which has been dogging them: theescalating number Of HIV positive patientsin the city.