MP commented on the idea of ​​declaring HIV-dissident organizations as extremist

“Yes, we have many citizens who disagree with scientific conclusions and methods.

Someone did not agree with the existence of coronavirus, someone did not agree that you need to give birth in a maternity hospital ... In turn, you just need to tell people how to properly treat a particular disease, from which it stems, ” she thinks.

Bessarab noted that today the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science are doing quite a lot in terms of information education of the population.

At the same time, she also added that Russia provides for certain articles on responsibility for such actions (HIV dissidence. -

) if they caused real harm.

“Both administrative measures and criminal ones.

If this, for example, is already organized at the level of a sect or at the level of an organization that causes damage to a certain circle of people.

Then, the law is already coming into force here, ”concluded the interlocutor of RT.

Earlier, a member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Pavel Krupnik, proposed to study the possibility of adding the movement of HIV-dissidents to the list of destructive and extremist organizations.

He explained that such communities promote anti-scientific ideas about the absence of HIV as such, and also urge patients with this virus to refuse treatment.