Some 73,000 Malaysians have been infected with HIV, of which 75 percent are intravenous drug users and 7 percent are women, he said.“Based on the trend that we are seeing, HIV infections can escalate to 300,000 cases by 2015 if we do not do anything,” Ramlee said.
The government has taken aggressive steps to fight HIV transmission under a five-year national strategic plan launched in 2006, he said.
This include drug substitution therapy and needle exchange programs for drug addicts, and providing free antiretroviral drugs at government clinics especially for women and children.
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I see, so now we are solving problems by substituting one serious problem for another. Yeah, that makes sense.
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