The Ministry of Education and science of Russian Federation advised to avoid the word "condom" in an online lesson on HIV prevention. The head of the NGO "Center for Modern Educational Technologies", Sergei Bulanov says.

International AIDS prevention Day, will be held on December 1. It was ordered by the Ministry of Education and Science. Such online lessons are held in Russia since 2015.

The workshop was held on November 2. It was led by the deputy director of the profile department of the Ministry of Education and Science Larisa Falkovskaya. As Bulanov said, he suggested not to use prepared answers coordinated with the ministry (as it happened in the past years) for the lesson participants, but to conduct the exercise in a playful form. One of the suggestions was to arrange a Battle, dedicated to the theme of the lesson, between the two teams.
In response to this, the employees of the Center for Modern Educational Technologies were advised to talk about morality, "to get away from slippery topics," and not to use the word "condom". After that, the meeting was suspended.
According to Bulanov, the position of the Ministry of Education and Science consists in "substituting HIV prevention with the prevention of moral values".

"The NGO will continue to work on the lesson, focusing on the experts of the Ministry of Health, not on the customer" - clarified Bulanov.

In 2016, the number of people infected with HIV in Russia increased by 5% compared to 2015. During the year, 103.5 thousand new infections were registered. At the same time, for example, in Chuvashia, the number of cases of HIV infection for the year increased by 40%. In total, as of May 2017, 1.1 million cases of HIV infection have been registered in Russia.