Nobody knows exactly how many children are homeless or living on the streets of Ukraine. Estimates range from 50,000 to 3 million. Many children living on the streets are regular drug useres, progressing from using glue to injecting lethal homemade concoctions of effidrine and vinegar from as young as 6 years old. Levels of HIV and Aids have reached epidemic proportions in Ukraine. The World Health Organisation and the UN estimate that 1.4 per cent of the population of 48 million is infected. Last year 2,025 new cases of HIV positive children were registered.