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Monday 18 November 2013

Puerto Rico's drug addicts: 'Nobody wants to know them'




Puerto Rico's drug addicts: 'Nobody wants to know them'

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Puerto Rico has an HIV/Aids infection rate nearly four times the US national average -- and over half of these come from injection drug use. Overwhelmed and chronically underfunded, the existing framework of health programmes struggles to serve an estimated 60,000 intravenous drug users, so a patchwork of non-profit groups tries to fill the void. Fusion's Alexander Hotz and Kristofer RĂ­os investigate

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