Drug addiction in Saint Petersburg is in full explosion. The main causes are the heroin trail coming across the southern ex-Soviet republics and an increase in unemployment in the working-class suburbs of Saint Petersburg. These young heroin users shoot the drug just because they say « it's fun », « it's cheap », without any information or knowledge of the...
While treatment prices are getting lower and in developed countries people no longer die of AIDS, in Malawi the disease is still rampant, as the country is one of the states most affected by the scourge. Prevention programs that are unable to make a breakthrough, a slain generation.
Being the Latin American country most touched by the AIDS epidemic, with more than 600 000 cases, Brazil decided to confront the disease head on, and override commercial patents. AIDS related drugs were thus copied, manufactured and distributed. The social consequences are direct and immediate. The poorest classes, even in the favelas, now have free access to...
