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Aged 46-55
Interview 24  

Interview 24

Age at Interview: 47
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 41
Background: A heterosexual married man who has 2 grown children who became addicted to heroin as a way of dealing with the pressures of war. He became infected with HIV through needle-sharing.
Brief outline:At one stage, he was very unwell and his CD4 cells were as low as 200. Since drug rehabilitation in the Russian Exodus Christian charity, he has been able to get his life back on track and his CD4 cells are now 900.

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He became addicted to heroin when he could not find a job.

 



And my first experiment with drugs was in, in the war where a lot of people took drugs to relieve yourself. To, because of conditions, it's not very good conditions, and I started to do it there first time… But you know I wasn't addicted when I was in this war. But when I left my military career I was so disappointed of nothing to do because I couldn't find a proper job. And so I felt myself so unhappy. And I'd met a lot of friends from my twenties, early twenties and it's… They were mainly all addicted people and it happened very quickly, I became addicted as well. It was hell. And I just wanted to escape from this hell. 
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