Monday, February 20, 2006

Russia's unwanted HIV-positive orphans

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Abuses over HIV 'rife' in Russia
(This isn't actually exactly the right link as, bizarrely, the BBC who just ran this as a feature on their 10 o'clock news don't have anything about it on their website.)

We just saw this on the BBC TV news. Many Russian babies are abandoned because they are HIV-positive. Tragically they end up living in hospitals, unwanted and isolated.