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Ukraine...Sex, Drugs, Poverty & HIV

This is series of images shot over 10 days in 4 cities across Ukraine. It would have been impossible to do this without a collective of enlightened ex-drug addicts and HIV+ Ukrainians without whom I would never have had the access that I did. It would be remiss of me not to thank those extraordinary individuals who moved me every day I worked with them in their often horrifying world.

Ukraine currently has the world’s fast accelerating HIV infection rate, a statistic which until recently has been thought to be largely influenced by IV drug use but which currently officially stands at a 50/50 for IV drugs use and unprotected heterosexual sex. Many experts speculate that it may now be more like 70/30 in favour of unprotected sex which is causing this alarming, unchecked rise in infections.

After the Orange Revolution earlier this year, many Ukrainians are hopeful of a better future, one not so dominated by minimal wage, minimal opportunity and a thinking governed by years of Soviet influence. Right now there are a number of investigations going on across the country by the new government into the previous regimes practices. The principal current effect of this series of changes is that the fragile economy is declining steadily and while officials are scrambling for positions and politicing in a new system, Aids continues to march across the country at a frightening rate.

The reasons for this are myriad and are largely based in ignorance amongst the population, a lack of effective information campaigns, a lack of budget and governmental support for the necessary campaigns and the criminalisation and stigmatisation of HIV by both the Police and in the minds of most of the populace. There is very little understanding of the far reaching implications of Aids and the general consensus is one of “Why should we care for these people, they are criminals.” Most HIV is perceived by Ukrainians to come from drug use and shared infected needles. There is a shocking lack of knowledge across the country on what Aids actually is and how the immune deficiency virus is actually transmitted. In this light most Ukrainians struggle to see why this is something that government should spent precious money on.

There is no perception of how this disease can decimate labour indiscriminately, devastate an almost non-existent health system in a populous country, affecting thousands of family members who must care for victims in the absence of hospital care being available. This is to say nothing of the thousands of abandoned HIV+ babies and children for whom there exists only one State orphanage in the entire country which can accommodate less than 100 children under 4. Thousands of those children are on the streets, HIV+ and many of them incredibly young drug users who are having sex. The street-children and the criminals who seek to use them are fast becoming a new criminal underclass with no common morality and nothing to lose.


这一系列的照片是用了超过10天, 从乌克兰的4个城市里拍摄的. 如果没有那些前吸毒者和感染爱滋病病毒的乌克兰人, 这将会是个不可能完成的任务. 我想感谢那些每天带我到处走动的人们.

目前, 乌克兰是世界上爱滋病感染率上升率最快的国家. 事实上, 并不是大家所想像一般, 吸毒者的感染率居冠; 近来的一项统计数字显示, 无预防措施之(异性的)性交和吸毒者的感染率分别为50/50. 无论如何, 一些专家预测, 无预防措施的性交活动将会导致比例进一步上升到70/30.

经过了今年初的橙色革命(2004-2005)后, 许多的乌克兰人都期待着的美好未来, 希望可以摆脱一个不再是以低薪水为主, 少量的工作机会, 以及一直被前苏联统治下所延续下来思想的族群. 目前的新政府发起了若干调查前度政权所实行的政策的举动, 这一系列的动作最直接的影

响就是导致脆弱的经济开始下滑, 与其同时, 政治人物也趁机会尔谀我诈以分一杯羹, 这个时候, 爱滋病继续以疯狂数字在全国各地攀升.  由于普罗大众的无知, 缺乏提供爱滋病资讯的讲座会, 缺乏政府的援助以及金钱预算, 再加上警方和大众对于爱滋病的歧视/误解, 种种的原因导致了爱滋病肆虐. 很少人会去了解病患, 一般上, 大家都是认为:「为什么我们要去关心这些人，他们不是罪犯吗?」. 大多数的乌克兰人都是通过吸毒和共用针筒注射而被感染的. 他们的人民缺乏有关爱滋病的知识, 比如甚么是爱滋病, 爱滋病是怎么传染的等等. 这些就是政府应该花钱来推行的教育计画.

你完全没有办法去想像这种病毒是如何的摧毁了劳工层的人们, 并且大肆破坏一个几乎没有健全的医疗系统的国家, 导致了千百个家庭的成员必须在没有医药护理的情况下照料他们的家人. 这还不包括了数以千计被抛弃的感染孩童, 全国也只有唯一的一家孤儿院, 它只能容纳少过100个4岁下儿童. 其他数以千计的孩童都被迫在街上流浪, 甚至造就了很多的年轻吸毒者. 犯罪集团很喜欢利用这一些流浪孩童来进行犯罪活动.