Heroin boom fuels AIDS epidemic
Drug trade from Afghanistan is spreading HIV.
The flourishing drug trade in Afghanistan is fuelling the AIDS epidemic in that country and its neighbours in Asia, warns a World Bank report released at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, this week.
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It should be noted that only after the war, there seems to be more of IV drug users. It is the psychological pressure that has made people to push into this habit. As the war seems to be never ending, people do migrate to other countries, thereby, taking & carrying the habit to others. Thus the other part of Asia is also affected to the worst.
So question, here is, should the government be concerned about putting an end to war or should it concentrate to have more sterilised needles?
Posted by: Shanthi Sankaralingam | August 15, 2006 08:08 PM
One thing about Afghanistan is that I have not heard of any drug tratment center. Most of them are in USA and that because the drugs come from there into our country. The point is, in fact, that most of the Asian countries are very poor because many western countries take a lot of advantages from there. Politics is involved, of course and drug addiction in Western world has its reason.
Posted by: Jimmy | September 4, 2007 07:02 PM