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Heroin boom fuels AIDS epidemic

Drug trade from Afghanistan is spreading HIV.

The flourishing drug trade in Afghanistan is fuelling the AIDS epidemic in that country and its neighbours in Asia, warns a World Bank report released at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, this week.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on August 15, 2006 04:55 PM |

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