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Battling ignorance and saving lives

by Nathan Gray at 30/07/2012

The Moscow news

When HIV was first observed in the West in the beginning of the 1980s, medical professionals were baffled and blindsided by a rapidly spreading outbreak.

In the Soviet Union, however, political isolation contributed to a delay in the emergence of the virus, with the first diagnosis in a Soviet citizen not coming until 1987.

“We had very few conditions for the explosive rise of an epidemic: we had a very controlled society, we had little exposure with the rest of the world, and we had a relatively minor drug abuse problem,” said Alexei Bobrik, now the head of major medical equipment developer and supplier Becton Dickinson in Russia and the CIS.

Unlike in the West, where no one knew even what the virus was at its first appearance, the Soviet Union was able to institute a blood screening program based on the West’s experiences. Infections from transfusions were low, and apart from isolated outbreaks, the virus’s spread was controlled.

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