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AIDS Hospice
Photo: An AIDS hospice in Milan, Italy
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Meals are served with care and compassion at an AIDS hospice run by Milan's Catholic nuns. Needle sharing among IV drug users has infected many European AIDS victims. Worldwide, about 15,000 people contract the disease every day.
Photograph by George Steinmetz

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