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Yana Kolpakova from Vladivostok, Russia, has been living with HIVfor a long time and said she thinks anyone in Russia with HIV has likely been discriminated against by doctors at some point.
“One nurse advised people like me to get sterilized,” Kolpakova told DW. “When I was admitted to hospital for a ruptured fallopian tube, I was called a whore. I was accused of taking drugs, which is why they claimed anesthesia wouldn’t work for me.”
