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Russia, by Alex Majoli After the fall of the Soviet Union, a wave of drug use swept over Russia, addicting hundreds of thousands of young people. With heroin injection came the spread of HIV, rapidly infecting more than 1 million Russians. Russia’s is among the world’s most rapidly expanding AIDS epidemics, and frequently, those infected are diagnosed too late to be saved.

Russian sunset : Ships sail offshore during sunset at the Russian Black Sea coast resort city of Sochi. (AFP/Denis Sinyakov)