Nightly News | June 19, 2013
Access to life: Russia
After the fall of the Soviet Union, a wave of drug use swept over Russia, addicting hundreds of thousands of young people. With heroin injection came the spread of HIV, rapidly infecting more than 1 million people. Russia’s is among the world’s most rapidly expanding AIDS epidemics, and frequently those infected are diagnosed too late to be saved. By Alex Majoli / Magnum for the Global Fund
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