------- Note that this article was first published in the Pajamasmedia ( direct link of this articale )and if you reproduce this article you must retain this notice In 2005 the UN warned of the risk of AIDS to Afghanistan . There is great concern over the virus being spread by growing numbers of drug users injecting and sharing needles. At the time there were no reliable figures on the incidence of AIDS in that country. The figures available at the time suggested the problem was not great. The only definite figures available on HIV/AIDS in Afghanistan would suggest that there is not too much to worry about. There are just 35 HIV-positive cases identified by Kabul ’s blood bank. More definite figures are now available. Abdul Sami Wahib, the director for the AIDS program in the Afghan Ministry of Health, says the research shows that over 3% of drug-addicts who use injections are infected, and that if nothing happens to prevent drug addiction in the country within the next fo...
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