FEATURE - Drugs, AIDS evade clampdown in India's northeast

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AIZAWL, India - Malsawmdawngu was just 14 when he began injecting a powerful painkiller and opiate into his veins because, he says, all his friends did. When he finally found out he was HIV-positive at 26, he almost went mad. "I had stopped taking drugs by then, and I was thinking about my future," says the young man who lives in Mizoram state in remote northeastern India. "I began doing drugs again, I slept in the streets, wearing just rags. I had nothing, I had to steal just for food. I thoug ... (more)  

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