In Europe, Ukraine is the country with highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate (1.63%) among adult population. The estimation is that 440 000 people are infected with HIV. Although the rate crossed 1 percentual point, the epidemic is considered to be concentrated (rather than generalized), which means there are still groups that are most at-risk and the epidemic has not yet been really bridged to the general population.

These above sentences should serve as an introduction to an experience that I went through yesterday. I met with a social worker who has taken me to visit several of the social daily centers that concentrate on injecting drug users as well as on people that are diagnosed as HIV-infected (ВИЧ-инфицирован).

... will continue later