Bandung wages war on HIV/AIDS

Bandung wages war on HIV/AIDS

BANDUNG: More than 2,000 used syringe needles were destroyed
in Bandung, West Java, on Wednesday in an effort to stop the
spread of HIV/AIDS cases in the city.

The needles were incinerated by non-governmental organization
activists from the HIV/AIDS Prevention Regional Committee (KPAD)
for West Java, and other related agencies.

Needles are often shared by injecting drug users, thus
increasing the number of people living with HIV/AIDS among them
across Indonesia.

"Around 60 percent of the people newly infected with HIV are
injecting drug users," KPAD spokesman Arry Lesmana Putra told
journalists during the event. --JP