The silent victims of Russia's HIV epidemics

Last year Russia recorded the third highest number of new HIV cases anywhere in the world.

But few are aware that heterosexual sex has overtaken injecting drug use as the main means of HIV transmission.

On World Aids Day, we ask whether eastern Europe could be on the brink of a universal HIV epidemic like that which has ravaged Africa - and can the crisis be stopped?


Documentary by Alex Gatenby

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