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The use of acid as a weapon is often not intended to kill, but to maim and scar for life. Survivors are left with vivid disfigurement and trauma. In Cambodia, authorities have passed legislation law targeting acid violence in the last year, but many survivors are still waiting for justice. A TV news report.
In developing countries, people with HIV rely on inexpensive anti-retroviral drugs produced in India. But critics say a new trade deal being negotiated between India and the European Union could threaten that access and put the vital drugs out of reach of many who need them the most.
