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    The Needle Exchanger

    Feb 01, 2017 3 minutes

    interview by CATARINA FERNANDES MARTINS

    IT’S ALMOST MIDNIGHT when Marta Nascimento strides up to a young sex worker and her john who are loitering in Lisbon’s run-down Martim Moniz neighborhood. Nascimento opens her backpack, which is brimming with syringes, aluminum foil, and crack pipes. The sex worker asks only for condoms, though—she doesn’t need drug paraphernalia tonight. Confused, the john asks if Nascimento is carrying. “She doesn’t sell drugs,” the sex worker explains, “just distributes the

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