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Rawalpindi, Pakistan 

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Over 60 percent of Rawalpindi's injectable drug users test positive for HIV, yet this long-time client of Nai Zindagi has remained clean of the virus despite shooting-up daily. 

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Nai Zindigi outreach workers mark clients' attendendance using biometrics before providing clean syringes, HIV field tests, and other basic health services at a popular shoot-up spot in Rawalpindi.

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Nai Zindigi's barber makes his daily rounds of the city, giving hundreds of addicts free haircuts and shaves.

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Naila Manawar, one of Nai Zindigi's mobile health workers, conducts an HIV field test for a high-risk client who has recently been sharing needles.

 

When his test comes back negative, Manawar talks the relieved man through important information for avoiding the deadly virus, and some tips for reducing and ultimately kicking his heroin addiction.

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At Nai Zindagi's detox and anti-retroviral adherence unit in Barako, HIV positive heroin addicts begin their long process to recovery through a closely guided opioid detox, followed by the beginning of their ARV treatment schedule, which will dramatically increase their chances of surviving the HIV virus. 

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