Need help with AIDS for injecting people

Only a small number of people infected with HIV through injections are treated (Photo: BBC)

Speaking at the 16th AIDS Conference in Toronto, Ms. Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch of the Civil Society Research Institute, OSI, called on governments to help injecters protect themselves.

"Governments say injecters should be responsible but not help when people come."

Kasia has been condemned by the news agency for her injustice that some people infected with HIV are considered worthy of death.

Experts say millions of people in these countries do not have access to HIV prevention programs such as clean needles and heroin replacement with methadone, which continues to spread.

Many countries in Asia, such as China, Malaysia and Indonesia, inject drugs account for the highest proportion of HIV infection.

In those places, even in Vietnam, OSI experts say the only way for injecting people to receive HIV treatment is to go to harsh rehab centers.

President of Malaysia's AIDS Council, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, said only 12% of those who received antiviral drugs were injecting drugs, while they accounted for 75% of HIV infections nationwide.

Statistics from 46 countries announced at the AIDS Conference showed that by the end of 2004, only 36,000 people who were or were injected were treated with virus-containing drugs.

This imbalance is more pronounced in Russia, where UNAIDS estimates there must be 940,000 people infected with HIV.

Alexanda Volgina, who used to be a consultant in St. Petersburg, told AFP she had to cover her face in public when she found out she was infected with HIV.

"My friends came to the clinic to be answered because they did nothing for society, so they were not treated. Far from being injured, they did not carry injecting people, and if no one was hospitalized, no one experienced enough about injecting. to take care of us. "

Peter Piot, UNAIDS director, said, "Except Africa is still elsewhere, nearly one-third of people infected with HIV because of needle use is not clean, but in many countries they are not treated at all."

Experts at the AIDS Conference in Toronto emphasize the motivating role of doctors because they are the ones who can help eliminate prejudice against injecting people.