The Situations of HIV/AIDS Infected and Affected People. A Case in Dessie Town, Ethiopia

Today, it is estimated that India has nearly five million citizens who have tested positive for HIV. The infection is spreading rapidly, especially in the big cities. It transpires that Hindu men in general visit prostitutes at least as frequently as men in Europe and the USA. The HIV epidemic has also reached China. For a long time the authorities refused to acknowledge the problem, but in recent years they have turned officially to WHO and UNAIDS for help. What is extremely tragic in the case of China is that a lot of the spread of the infection is due to flagrant negligence in the health service. Hundreds of thousands of poor people in rural areas were infected when they gave blood. Just as in India, promiscuity is relatively widespread, and in the longer term an extremely serious situation is in prospect. What is now happening in India and China is very ominous. If the epidemic develops in a similar way to what we have seen in many African countries БЂ“ and the risk of this cannot be ruled out БЂ“ it would mean that several hundred millions of Indians and Chinese would be affected ...»