Fiji's HIV Emergency, and the Meth Epidemic Behind It

Fiji's government declared a national emergency in mid-September over a startling rise in HIV infections, NPR reports. The country's crystal meth epidemic is a strong contributing factor, according to the same reporting — not a footnote to the story but part of its headline cause set out by NPR. The overlap is the uncomfortable part: a drug crisis and an HIV surge arriving together, in a country whose health system now has to answer both at once.