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HIV Spreading Rapidly in Malaysia
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John Henry
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Feb 13, 2007 05:35 PST
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HIV Spreading Rapidly in Malaysia
Feb 11, 2007
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The number of HIV infections in Malaysia
could surge by more than fourfold to 300,000 by 2015 as the virus spreads
rapidly from high-risk groups to the general public, a senior health
official warned Sunday.
Other than drug addicts, official statistics indicate the HIV virus that
causes AIDS is spreading quickly to women, fishermen, lorry drivers and
factory workers, said Ramlee Rahmat, deputy director-general of public
health.
Some 73,000 Malaysians have been infected with HIV, of which 75 percent
are intravenous drug users and 7 percent are women, he said.
"Based on the trend that we are seeing, HIV infections can escalate
to 300,000 cases by 2015 if we do not do anything," Ramlee
said.
The government has taken aggressive steps to fight HIV transmission under
a five-year national strategic plan launched in 2006, he said.
This include drug substitution therapy and needle exchange programs for
drug addicts, and providing free antiretroviral drugs at government
clinics especially for women and children.
"We have put up intervention measures. We are taking this very
seriously. If we carry out our plans effectively and the public
cooperates with us, we will be successful in curbing the spread of the
disease," he added.
UNAIDS has last year said Malaysia was among several Asia-Pacific
countries that risked an HIV epidemic among drug users unless the
government took the problem more seriously.
Three people die from AIDS-related illness every day in Malaysia, the
Health Ministry has said. It warned last year that the spread of AIDS
could wipe out Malaysia's development made over the last 50 years and
devastate the economy.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070211/D8N7BCEO3.html
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The Lord Jesus said, "... Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:
see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but
the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and
pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew
24:4-8) The "sorrows" here are like those of a woman when
she about to delivered her child. God told Eve that He would
"greatly multiply [her] sorrow and [her] conception; in sorrow [she
would] bring forth children" (Genesis 3:16). Similarly a
"sign of [Christ's] coming, and of the end of the world"
(Matthew 24:3) will be as a woman's birth pains increase as time for
delivery nears. All five of the things in Matthew 24:4-7 (false
christs, wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes) will be simultaneously
increasing as the time of the end draws near. Research shows that
this is in fact occurring in our lifetime.
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