epa00538691 A 39 year-old heroin addict with AIDS, surnamed Pai, smokes heroin at home in rural Longchuan county, China’s Yunnan province, Sunday 25 September 2005. A member of China’s Jingpo ethnic minority group, Pai contracted HIV through intravenous use of heroin and has since reverted to smoking it. Heroin smuggled from Burma is devastating China’s Jingpo people, who number only 120,000 and live along the border region. Widespread heroin use has caused the transmission of AIDS among thousands of addicts and family members and left many Jingpo children as orphans. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS