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Ukraine and Israel

Lucy Ash in Kiev meets an ex-addict and prostitute whose needle exchange is now fighting Ukraine's HIV epidemic; Raffi Berg asks why Israeli manners are quite so rough and ready.

Pascale Harter introduces personal insights, experiences and analysis from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondents around the world. In this edition, Lucy Ash visits a squalid high-rise flat in Kiev - and finds it's really a needle exchange helping to fight one of Europe's worst HIV epidemics. Both addicts and educators here say it's working - but are the police and government responses so positive? In Israel, Raffi Berg recently got used to being treated unusually directly - even brusquely - but never really understood why. So what are the true roots of bluntness and plain speaking in this culture - and what does it all have to do with cacti?

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10 minutes

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Wed 10 Apr 2013 08:50GMT

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  • Wed 10 Apr 2013 01:50GMT
  • Wed 10 Apr 2013 08:50GMT