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The fate of Lyudmila and her son Edik:

Lyudmila Prokaeva is 56 years old.She has been injecting drug user for 30 years. Lyudmila found that she has AIDs, when she decided to let go of her past and entered a methadone program. With the disease reaching its terminal stage, in a last attempt to correct past mistakes, Lyudmila opened this blog to publicly tell what she has passed through and warn others from repeating her mistakes.

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• 25.01.2013     10:05     Блог ведется X дней     Ludmila

  

  I am still here

  People often ask me what kind of morals in the women's prison, and how women live there. In the men's lock-downs everything is simple and clear: there are some unspoken laws that everyone follows. Otherwise they will not survive.

  
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• 06.12.2012     15:23     Day 86     Ludmila

  

  Short views of Health Ministry

  You can’t write with the same temper always. At times words come out on their own, no need to push, and today I can’t invent the point of my writing. And again the state of mind and body is strongly connected.
  
  

  
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• 30.11.2012     14:13     Day 80     Ludmila

  

  Stigma

  Tomorrow it will be the World Aids Day. I used to work at the report about stigma and discrimination and remembered how bad I felt because of it. I clearly understand my son being ashamed to tell anyone about my disease. The society will come to the understanding that AIDS is only a scaring fairy tale, created by those who earn money on it with a permanent support of the mass media.

  
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• 26.11.2012     10:04     Day 76     Ludmila

  

  Hit the Mud

  There was one drug addict Isa, who used to live in our district. He was a neat Caucasian guy, who was never in need of something. His father was very rich. During the Soviet Union time his profit was around half million of rubles. That time it was a fabulous amount of money.
  

  
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• 23.11.2012     12:01     Day 73     Ludmila

  

  Sveta and ephedrine

  I have seen a lot of people in my life. Many of them didn't leave any track, but I remember some fates. Recently, I remembered about one woman. Her name was Sveta and she was a striking example of a drug addict, who would sell her own mother and kids for the dose.
  

  
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