Volume 40, Number 15 · September 23, 1993
The New Romania
By David J. Rothman, Sheila M. Rothman
Immediately after the overthrow of the Ceauçescu regime in December 1989, European medical relief agencies discovered several hundred babies infected with AIDS in decrepit and filthy state orphanages throughout Romania. Images of the wasted bodies of infants, two and three to a crib, appeared on European and American television, arousing public outrage. Many people sent contributions, and humanitarian organizations went to Romania to try to help the AIDS orphans and to understand how such a nightmarish situation could have occurred.
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