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From Our Own Correspondent: Ukraine and Israel

10/04/2013

Ukraine and Israel

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Ukraine and Israel

Meeting an ex-addict and prostitute turned HIV educator; exploring blunt Israeli manners

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 BBC 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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