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Housewives, addicts told to take HIV test
The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Wed, 12/02/2009 10:20 AM  |  National
Citing the increasing number of people becoming infected with HIV, the Health Ministry has recommended that people in high-risk groups get tested for the virus immediately.
The Health Ministry’s AIDS campaign officer, Hariadi Wisnu Wardana, said Tuesday he urged housewives and drug abusers — two population groups who he claimed are mostly ignorant about and highly prone to HIV infection — to take the test as soon as possible.
Hariadi said prostitutes and homosexual men were better protected against HIV because they realized that they could be infected with the virus anytime. He claimed this despite the fact that HIV prevalence rates for sex workers is significantly higher than for housewives.

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The next phase of the pandemic is well underway in South Africa – despite President Zuma’s pledged, on World AIDS Day, to undergo an HIV test in an attempt to overcome past political inertia. This is a step in the right direction for Zuma. As ex-deputy president he said he showered after sex with an HIV-positive woman as the believed this would reduce his risk infection. In his AIDS Day speech Zuma said all HIV-positive South African babies under the age of one will receive anti-retroviral drugs as part of a huge expansion of treatment. But entire families are affected and, as Ruxin explained, “when it destroys the fabric of society it improves the ground for cultivating the next wave of the epidemic.” When both parents die in a country that is unable to provide an infrastructure, education, and jobs orphaned children turn to whatever it takes to survive, including sex work. Or towards dangerous sexual relationships that offer other benefits such as school fees. This is also common in Uganda.

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Reena, a PT Foundation programme coordinator who has lived with HIV for 15 years, says the police make it very difficult for NGOs to carry out condom distribution programmes. Carrying more than two condoms is used as evidence that the person is a sex worker, she explains.
“I’ve been scolded before (by PT Foundation clients) for distributing condoms. A half hour after my client accepted the condom from us, she was arrested and charged because she had a condom. She had to pay a fine of RM3,000. How could she pay that amount when she only earns enough to survive for the day?” Reena says.
Reena and others were speaking at a media sensitisation workshop organised by the Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC) on 30 Nov 2009. The workshop was held in conjunction with World AIDS Day which falls on 1 Dec.
Manimalar, a 30-year-old sex worker, testifies of personally encountering such problems with the police.

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Just three months on the job, Parvati mistakenly applies eye-shadow to her lips.  An older sex worker chides her for the make-up blunder.
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Parvati was taught about condoms one month ago when another sex worker brought her to the community center in greater Bangalore.  She is now one of the 4,500 sex workers who live by the slogan  “No Condom, No Sex.” 
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Peer educator Jaya Srinivashan has been a sex worker for the past 25 years. The single mother got infected with HIV from her husband who died in 2000. She wasn’t tested until five years after his death. During that time she did not use condoms and believes she may have spread the virus to hundreds of people. She keeps her sickness a secret in fear she will lose her job.

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… Of all the topics we’ve ever had to talk about, this is one of the hardest,” said Zoccole, who is also president of a Toronto-based organization that serves gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered aboriginal, or “two-spirited”, people. “I’ve been discriminated against for being aboriginal and for being gay,” said Zoccole. He said that, while gay men used to be one of the most at-risk groups in First Nations communities, today it’s women.
Mika Ekomiak, who has been living with AIDS for nine years, contracted the disease through unsafe sex. Her partner didn’t tell her he was positive, and her judgement was clouded by alcohol, she said. “There were a lot of times people were putting me down. I wasn’t taking care of myself,” she said. “Those were dark days.”
Ekomiak said she quit drinking when was diagnosed and now feels “very wonderful, very healthy.”
“I want to share my experience and help other people” she said.
Dr. Howard Njoo of the Public Health Agency of Canada listed a number of factors that determine risk of infection: poverty, sex work, incarceration and substance abuse.

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Lack of preventive steps raises HIV risk
Mahbubur Rahman Khan
Reluctance to use condom and abrupt use of syringe increase the risk of HIV infection and spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in the country.
Poverty-ridden women, who engage in sex work, become more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and STD as sex buyers show reluctance to use condom.
Sex workers could not compel customers to use condom in the fear of losing money or assault from the customers. Chief of sex workers also do not compel sex buyers to use condom fearing loss in business, investigation revealed.
Aklima Begum, a leader of Kandapara Brothel of Tangail, told this Correspondent that she knows about HIV and STD and supplied condom to the sex workers but very few customers use condom.
Customers are not only reluctant to use condom rather they often get furious on workers and assault them, she said.

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