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HIV/AIDS drug users shunned by healthcare providers.
2004 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The vast majority of HIV patients in many countries of Asia and Eastern Europe are injecting drug users, and they often lack access to prevention and treatment services because of discrimination and fear of arrest, U.N. officials and activists said.
There are an estimated 13 million intravenous drug users worldwide, including 10 million in developing and transitional countries, where infection rates among the addicts can run as high as 90%, said Andrew Ball, manager of HIV/AIDS support at the World Health Organization (WHO).
"We're looking at huge numbers of injecting drug users who are infected with HIV," he said at the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok.
"Currently, there are many drug injectors who require treatment and there will be many more drug injectors who will require treatment in the next years to come."
In Western countries, addicts with HIV have relatively good access to anti-retroviral therapies, but the situation dramatically worsens in regions such as Eastern Europe, where most drug users "are excluded from any form of treatment," he said.
HIV-infected addicts often are reluctant to seek medical care for fear they will be handed over to police or forced to undergo drug rehabilitation, Ball said. In some countries, HIV treatment programs are simply unavailable, he added.
Addicts also face "the very negative attitudes" of doctors and nurses.
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