Leading Russian AIDS Researcher Vadim Pokrovsky Dies Aged 71

Russian epidemiologist and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vadim Pokrovsky died on May 20 at the age of 71. One of the Founders of Russia's HIV Response Pokrovsky spent more than 40 years leading the Research Department for AIDS Prevention and Control at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology under Rospotrebnadzor. Officials and colleagues described him as one of the architects of Russia's fight against HIV/AIDS. He worked on the country's first recorded HIV cases and outbreaks during the 1980s and 1990s.