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Denis, 12, injects a self-made drug based on ephedrine, known as ‘baltoushka’, to his friend, while Konstantin, 17, looks on. Photographed in an abandoned house where they lived in Odessa, Ukraine, on 17 June 2006. The whereabouts of both boys are unknown. © M. Novotny
<strong>Blame</strong> and <strong>Banishment</strong>: The underground HIV epidemic affecting children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia SECTION II The stories of most-at-risk adolescents are stories of broken dreams… “They got my brother Farkhod addicted to heroin, as well as one of the girls, Dilafuz, who is such a nice girl. First, they (relatives) asked them to prepare the drug-mix and injection. But then they offered it to her (Dilafuz) to try it herself. Then heroin was hard to get and they sent Dilafuz, who was 15 years old at the time, to Dushanbe. She crossed the border, but on her way back was caught by customs. She was told that they would detain her for three days, but, instead, they kept her for a week and raped her all that time. Her grandmother, an IDU too, came to pick her up. After that Dilafuz started smoking heroin, then making injections, and ” selling herself. People in the village started calling her ‘a girl for a dose’. From an interview with a health worker describing what happened to his brother and a young woman in his village in Uzbekistan. “I was young, a teenager. I was in love with my boyfriend who injected drugs. I wanted to be with him and his friends so I asked him to give me an injection. At first he did not want to do it but I kept insisting and nagging him. I was curious and I wanted to be part of the group. So I kept going back. Finally he gave me an injection and I felt so sick. They thought they got ” rid of me and that I would not come back… but I did. I went right back the next day… From an interview with a young female ex-IDU working as an outreach worker in Moldova. 17
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