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