Irina Teplinskaya

Irina Teplinskaya is community relations coordinator for Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice; she is HIV positive and lives in Kaliningrad, Russia

A drug addict in free fall: another reckoning

For many years Irina Teplinskaya has been campaigning for replacement therapy to be available to drug addicts in Russia, but it remains banned by the law. On 18 August Irina returned to Russia from a course of rehabilitation in Ukraine. At the border she was searched and a tablet ‘found’ in her ba

By Irina Teplinskaya

/ 25 Aug 2011