How Edinburgh became the capital of AIDS in Europe

The disease soon spread to Edinburgh, with leading causers of cheap heroin because of hundreds of drug addicts. Free because it was sold on the street for only 5 pounds of a bag, and that sexual relations were being done without protection even one more reason for spreading, writes the BBC, translates Periscope.

Regarding this, Dr. Roy Robertson, a general doctor who was among the first doctors to discover from his research in 1986, found that 51% of 164 users of tested heroin were positive with the virus that caused Aids.

Robertson adds that no other city in the United Kingdom has had such an epidemic.

The expert on the drug problem, Rowdy Yates, says police activity in Edinburgh in the early 1980s was the ruthless “”.

Former police chief Tom Wood admits that they may have behaved ruthlessly but were trying to use maximum efforts to address this issue.

In 1987 came the first drug, providing short - term survival for those with AIDS, years later there were further advances that have led to more successful long-term treatments.

Now health authorities are dealing with the largest HIV turmoil in these 30 years, but this time in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, and the third most inhabited in the United Kingdom. /Persycope