Only three state clinics will issue HIV-free certificates to migrants

The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region signed a decree fixing the list of medical organizations that can conduct mandatory examination of foreign citizens.

Doctors will check migrants for the use of drugs and psychotropic substances, the presence of dangerous infections and the human immunodeficiency virus, and, if necessary, conduct chemical and toxicological studies. A full range of services, including the issuance of HIV-free certificates, is available in three state institutions: the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS and Infectious Diseases, the Clinical Diagnostic Center and the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Skin and Venereological Dispensary.

Two more private clinics – the Unified Medical Center and Medicinaservice – received the right to a medical examination, but they are prohibited from issuing certificates about the absence of the human immunodeficiency virus.