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Story June 27, 2018

The Places Where HIV Shows No Sign of Ending, and the Parts of the Human Brain That Are Bigger—In Bigger Brains

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Nigeria Russia United states

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Jon Cohen
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Misha Friedman
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Yusuf Adamu, 12, in April arrived at Asokoro Hospital in Abuja, with a severe case of late-stage AIDS. Doctors suspected that he had tuberculosis and he’s shown here in the X-ray room. Adamu’s mother died from AIDS when he was 3, which is when he was first diagnosed. Yusuf’s father, Ibrahim, and his two other wives are infected, as is a sister. The impoverished family has difficulty paying the bus fares to travel from Yusuf’s home to the hospital for regular checkups and medication the necessary medication adjustments. Nigeria has more children infected by their mothers than any country in the world, and, in turn, the largest number of children dying from AIDS. Image by Misha Friedman. Nigeria, 2018.

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Tools are now available to prevent and treat HIV infections, but Russia, Nigeria and the U.S. state...

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Woman examining pregnancy in Lagos. Image by Misha Friedman. Nigeria, 2018.

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