Dean of the Faculty of Orthodox Culture of the Military Academy Missile troops Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov supported the petition of the Orthodox and Patriotic Parents' Committees to ban HIV prevention programs.

The clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church and the chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on the family, protection of motherhood and childhood, Dmitry Smirnov, spoke out in support of public figures who oppose AIDS prevention, which, in their opinion, corrupts minors in the interests of the LGBT community. Smirnov stated this in an interview with the National News Service.

Dimitri Smirnov (center)

“I am very glad that some activity has finally appeared among our people. 800 people die from AIDS in Russia. From tuberculosis - 100 thousand. No one is talking about any prevention of tuberculosis. And these "speed-bearers" are constantly climbing into schools, to children. This is exactly what is being done, all this propaganda. I remember that about 25 years ago, schoolchildren in the Yaroslavl region were let through these programs. And the number of venereal diseases has increased many times at once, ”he said.

According to the archpriest, in order not to get AIDS, it is enough to "lead a chaste life." At the same time, the representative of the Church explains sexual education by the political motives of the West.

Archpriest Smirnov has spoken consistently about the problem of HIV and AIDS before. In the program of the Spas TV channel, Archpriest Smirnov said that AIDS is deliberately spread by the doctors themselves, and the human immunodeficiency virus does not exist - allegedly it was invented to manipulate society.

Director of the AIDS Center Foundation Anton Krasovsky, in turn, advised Dimitri Smirnov to "be more modest":

“You don’t need to listen to Father Dimitri Smirnov. He himself must lead a chaste life. Mentally chaste life. And in general be a little more modest. Comrade Smirnov, first of all, I would like to recommend studying the list of trinkets that he wears to official patriarchal receptions. I think this is a much more important occupation for him than getting into the prevention of HIV infections, in which he understands nothing. However, as he does not understand anything at all in anything.

The indignation of Orthodox social activists was caused by the Novosibirsk City public organization"Humanitarian Project", which won a grant of 7.4 million rubles. for capacity development non-profit organizations working with the family and community in programs for maintaining health and preventing socially significant diseases, write "News of Siberia" .

The letter was signed by the leaders regional office"All-Russian Parents' Meeting", the movement "In Defense of Childhood", the center of family education and upbringing "Family and Children" and others.

The "Humanitarian Project" stated that the closure of the project will lead to the further development of the epidemic and the ruin of the state budget, because "everything more people become infected and more people are dying from HIV and TB without knowing their status."

AIDS is a condition that develops against the background of HIV infection and is characterized by a drop in the number of CD4 + lymphocytes, multiple opportunistic infections, non-communicable and neoplastic diseases. AIDS is the final stage of HIV infection. Back in 2016, in Russia, at the suggestion of Yekaterinburg doctors, they started talking about the upcoming HIV epidemic.

Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov is a colorful figure in the Russian Orthodox Church. You listen to some of his sermons and interviews, and you think: "How can such a person be a priest at all?"
After the tragedy: the tsunami in Thailand, he delivered a fiery sermon, where he said that it was God who punished them all by sending a tsunami. And, like, rightfully so, the wicked.
There are other "pearls" of the gray-haired priest - you can find them on the Internet.

But today I read a story that really made me sick. Because this is no longer a joke. Imagine, our omniscient father Dimitry Smirnov convinced the woman that HIV does not exist. And she refuses to treat her child!

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MOSCOW, March 6, RIA FederalPress. The interview of the clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church caused a great resonance in in social networks. Dimitri Smirnov's father's words that HIV does not exist inspired a mother from Tyumen to continue refusing treatment for her three-year-old daughter.

The interview with the clergyman appeared on the Spas TV channel back in 2008. Dimitri Smirnov says that he attended a conference in Yekaterinburg, where he listened to doctors from all over the world speak. According to the priest, they said that the immunodeficiency virus does not exist in nature.

“HIV - no! There is not a single person in the world who would have seen the human immunodeficiency virus, and AIDS ... arises from four reasons: the first is stress, the second is depression, the third is the destruction of immunity by vaccinations, the fourth is external intoxication. All these factors affect the immune system of a person, and he can get AIDS,” Father Dimitry Smirnov said.

The priest calls the disease "pseudo-HIV" and urges not to take tests and not be treated. “Forget and never take this test for AIDS and HIV. This hysteria about AIDS, SARS or something else is subject to many people,” said the clergyman.

The words of Father Dimitry were so convincing that a resident of Tyumen reposted a video from the priest's interview on the VKontakte social network, Tyumenskaya Oblast Today reports. Tyumenskaya convinced herself that she was doing the right thing by refusing to treat her own for HIV three year old daughter. The AIDS Center Foundation published this story on its website.

The mother claims that the girl stopped developing after she had a viral infection at the age of six months. Now the baby is three years old, but she cannot sit and walk, and a month ago she was admitted to the hospital due to anemia and lack of weight. Doctors made several diagnoses: carditis, candidiasis, lung damage, Epstein-Barr virus. All these diseases are a sign of progressive HIV infection.

The HIV test also turned out to be positive, but the Tyumen woman does not believe in its veracity and refuses to treat her daughter.

According to the law, if parents intentionally refuse to treat a child with chronic diseases, this equates to a threat to life and deprivation parental rights through guardianship.

The AIDS.Center Foundation has already sent a corresponding appeal children's ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova.

Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov supported the petition to ban HIV prevention programs.

Activists of the parent organizations "All-Russian Parent meeting”, “In Defense of Childhood”, Novosibirsk Coordinating Council for the Protection of Public Morality, Culture and Traditional family values, "Family and Children" to ban HIV prevention programs among adolescents, which are conducted in the city by the NGO "Humanitarian Project". , lectures on sexually transmitted infections, corrupting minors, provoking early sexual intercourse.

Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov on the air NSN supported the petition:

“Absolutely, every word. I am very glad that some activity has finally appeared among our people. 800 people die from AIDS in Russia. From tuberculosis - 100 thousand. No one is talking about any prevention of tuberculosis. And these "speed-bearers" are constantly climbing into schools, to children. This is precisely what is being done, all this propaganda. I remember that about 25 years ago, schoolchildren in the Yaroslavl region were let through these programs. And the number of venereal diseases has increased many times at once,” he said. NSN.

The cleric explains sexual education by the intrigues of the West.

“Then, where do all these innovations come from? They come from the West. Is there at least one friend of Russia there? No. And those who promote these programs with us are the kind of NGOs that are given an “honorary” title. foreign agent". Is it not clear? Their goal is not the fight against AIDS, but the one these worried parents talk about. In order not to get AIDS, you need to lead a chaste life. That's all. And this must be taught. Both at school and parents,” he stressed.

Russian Orthodox Church(ROC) has played an outstanding role in the formation and development of our statehood. It's stupid to argue with this. As, however, with the fact that the ROC often becomes the object of public criticism because of the statements of individual clergymen, it is not in the best way affecting the image of the Church. Some of them have gone so far as to say that HIV prevention is… harmful.

This time, the words of the head of the Patriarchal Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church on family issues, protection of motherhood and childhood, Archpriest Dimitri Smirnov. He supported members of the public opposing HIV/AIDS prevention among schoolchildren.

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The reason that provoked the anger of public figures and the clergyman was the petition of the organization "Parental all-Russian resistance”(RVS), the authors of which demanded that the authorities of Novosibirsk ban the activities of the NGO “Humanitarian Project” in city schools. According to activists, the NGO, which received a presidential grant (7.4 million rubles), actively cooperates with the local LGBT community, as well as with structures from the United States and Europe, acting in their interests.

Why is the clergyman so up in arms against the prevention of the “plague of the 20th century” (now, apparently, we can add the 21st century)? He acts not only as a guardian of the “chaste life” of fellow citizens, but also as a fighter for the state sovereignty of Russia, seeing the pernicious influence of the West in attempts to prevent HIV / AIDS.

Where do all these innovations come from? They come from the West. Is there at least one friend of Russia there? No! - insists about. Dimitri. - And those who promote these programs in our country are the kind of NGOs that are given the “honorary” title of “foreign agent”. Isn't it clear?"

God be with them, with these "agents" of NGOs. We do not need any "agents" in order to completely ruin our lives. We will arrange the end of the world for ourselves.

But is the devil of AIDS really so terrible, as some people paint it? Perhaps the problem is generally sucked out of thin air and does not represent any particular danger of HIV? Alas, this is absolutely not the case. At the end of last year, the fighters with misfortune tried to sum up some results. The picture, they say, is very depressing.

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“Unfortunately, the number of infected people in Russia is growing,” says the head of the Federal Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS of Rospotrebnadzor Vadim Pokrovsky. - In Russia, 103 thousand new cases were registered last year. By November of this year, another 75,000 were registered, by the end of the year there will be at least 100,000.”

According to a note prepared federal center AIDS, with a diagnosis of HIV in Russia live more than 925 thousand people. The largest number of new cases was detected in 2017 in the Kemerovo, Irkutsk, Sverdlovsk and Vladimir regions, as well as in Perm region and the Republic of Crimea. Number of new HIV cases detected during last year, amounted to more than 104 thousand (in 2012 it was less than 71 thousand).

Every day, 8.5 thousand people in the world become infected with HIV, in Russia - at least 100 people.

"Despite active development diagnostics and treatment, the flourishing of pharmaceuticals, HIV infection still poses a serious danger to people around the world,” says acting. Deputy Minister of Health Sergey Kraevoy. For more than 35 years, HIV infection has been one of the global problems health care in the world, the head of Rospotrebnadzor echoes him Anna Popova.

In a word, the experts sound the alarm, blow the trumpets. And about. Dimitri, meanwhile, remains unperturbed, seemingly believing that the HIV/AIDS issue is far-fetched.

It must be admitted: Fr. Demetrius and his anti-Western "retinue" have many supporters in the country. A poll by the Levada Center showed that only 20% of respondents consider HIV a real threat to the country, and 9% are generally convinced that HIV is "a far-fetched problem, there is no serious threat to the population." More than 50% of respondents said that they are not afraid of "getting infected with HIV", but 40% admit such a possibility.

TASS/ Egor Aleev

Such "relaxed" ideas about a terrible, deadly disease are largely dictated by poor awareness, inadequate understanding of what HIV / AIDS is. In particular, not everyone is aware that it is never completely cured, but special treatment, the so-called antiretroviral therapy, can significantly extend a person's life. It has also been proven that, with proper and regular treatment, completely healthy children are born to HIV-infected mothers. You need to know all this, as well as the fact that you should avoid casual sexual contacts and, God forbid, taking illegal substances.

Informed means armed. How can one oppose explanatory, preventive work and at the same time claim the title of a modern, reasonable person?

“You don’t need to listen to Father Dimitry Smirnov,” advises the director of the AIDS.Center Foundation Anton Krasovsky in an interview with the radio station "Moscow speaking". “He himself must lead a chaste life. Mentally chaste life. And in general, be a little more modest.

Usually the Fathers of the Church do not question the establishment of worldly power, getting along well with officials and deputies of all levels. But with HIV, Father Dimitri clearly had a misfire. Although, maybe from elementary ignorance.

The fact is that back in 2016 the government of the Russian Federation approved a strategy to combat HIV infection until 2020 and beyond. Among other things, the document pays due attention to prevention issues. It notes that the strategy will also take into account the awareness of the population (read - the same prevention. - Note. author ) aged 18-49 on issues related to HIV infection.

So Father Demetrius was clearly carried away, and his theories diverged from the general line of power, which in this particular case acted from very reasonable positions.