 
February 4, 2008
Halting the Asian HIV Epidemic
Only one in 30 intravenous-drug users in Asia has access to HIV education, Australia’s The Sydney Morning Herald reports (smh.com.au, 2/1). However, the director of the UNAIDS Asia Pacific regional support team J.V.R. Prasada Rao reports that health officials are working to increase Asian IV-drug users’ access to AIDS information availability of these programs.
“Our main challenge in the next two years is to increase access from 3 percent to 80 percent for all injecting-drug users in need of these prevention and treatment services,” Rao said in a press conference. “This is a tall order, but unless we have the vision from the beginning, we will not go very far.”
According to the Herald, most of the world’s supply of opium and heroin is produced in Asia, which constitutes nearly half of the world’s 13 million IV-drug users.
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