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Growing up in eastern Ukraine, Svitlana Moroz said she was a typically reckless teenager who believed she’d live forever.

She shared needles with friends to inject opium, had unprotected sex with a guy her own age, and five months after hooking up with him, learned she was five months pregnant and HIV-positive. He tested positive a week later.

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