Pestilence and punishment.

A documentary series examining the problems and inconsistencies of modern medicine in historical and worldwide perspective. Margaret Jay, reporting from India, explores the links between morality and illness, focussing on leprosy and AIDS. Leprosy, now treatable, has lost its moral stigma but its place has been taken by AIDS. AIDS flourishes in Bombay through drug abuse, prostitution and the sale of blood which is carried on without testing for HIV. This omission is consistent with the refusal of the public and much of the medical profession to recognise that AIDS is a problem. Untreatable, it is officially ignored.