a legal injected opioid, but methadone clinics that provide safer oral substitutes are illegal in russia, and the women say they re afraid to go to a government rehab center for fear the state will take away their children. would methadone clinics, would needle distribution programs make a change in the infection rate, do you believe? oh, absolutely. reporter: last year, the russian government announced a new plan to fight the spread of hiv, but in a separate move the government labeled the small nonprofit organization she works for a foreign agent because it accepts foreign money to fund its work. are there other needle distribution programs? no, no, no. this is the only one. yeah. one bus. yeah. in all moscow. reporter: these activists on the front line of russia s war against hiv now fear their own
2013. when she went to a doctor recently to treat the drug-related ulster on her leg she was kicked out of the office and refused to treat her because she has hiv. she and her friend anya both want to kick their addiction to illegally injected opioids and methadone clinics which provide safer oral substitutes are illegal in russia and the women say they are afraid to go to a government rehab center for fear the state will take away their children. would methadone clinics, would needle distribution programs make a change in the infection rate, do you believe? oh, absolutely. last year the russian government announced a new plan to fight the spread of hiv, but in a separate move the government labeled the small nonprofit organization ana works for a foreign agent because it accepts foreign money to fund