Giving Hope To Drug Users in Moscow
Health Sciences • 19m
“People come here to inject because they can easily run away if the police show up,” says Vova, a street outreach worker with the Andrey Rylkov Foundation (ARF). There are many hotspots that outreach workers of the ARF visit every day to provide sterile injecting equipment, condoms and other forms of help for these young people. ARF is the first and only NGO distributing clean needles and syringes among injecting drug users on the streets of Moscow – with zero government funding and support.
Directors: István Gábor Takács & Péter Sárosi
2012 | 20 min
Hungary | Russia
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
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