Hansel Tookes, a doctor at the University of Miami, holds needles on November 30, 2016, that will be given away to addicts at a new syringe exchange program, the first ever to open in a city where HIV rates are about double that of most major US cities. Syringes, trash and homeless men line the broken sidewalk in a bleak section of downtown Miami where the state's first-ever needle exchange program will open on December 1. / AFP / Kerry SHERIDAN / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Kerry SHERIDAN, "Florida opens first needle exchange amid exploding HIV epidemic" (Photo credit should read KERRY SHERIDAN/AFP/Getty Images)
