Three decades after 'Western HIV plague ' hit USSR, this tiny community is still coming to terms with the devastation and lost children

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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