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Article: Bishkek's unlikely AIDS battle: Kyrgyzstan, one of the poorest former Soviet states, takes a proactive approach in prevention.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 21, 2000
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Victor Logachev's red taxi may look like any other plying the dark streets of this Central Asian capital by night. But when men wave him down and ask to go to the downtown pyatak - the place where prostitutes await clients - they are in for a surprise.
"Have you read this? It will be good for you," Mr. Logachev tells them, pushing into their hands a booklet about condom use and preventing the spread of HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS.
Invariably, he says, by the time they reach the plaza in front of the colonnaded Opera House and its knot of long-nailed, mini-skirted women, the passenger has asked where he can get condoms. Logachev then reaches ...