severak
3.12.2019 11:20:37
30 years after the ‘Western HIV plague’ hit, this tiny community is still coming to terms with the devastation and lost children
World Aids Day 2019: In 1988, a children's hospital in the provincial town of Elista became the epicentre of the Soviet Union's first ever HIV crisis. A total of over 270 children were eventually diagnosed with the virus– but for the families it was only the start of a savage injustice, writes Oliver Carroll