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Kathmandu Saturday September 30, 2000 Aswin 14, 2057.
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CSWs and IDUs prone to AIDS
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KATHMANDU,
Sept 29 - The two most risk-prone groups for contracting HIV/AIDS are Commercial Sex
Workers (CSWs) and Intravenous Drug Users (IDUs), health experts said at a review workshop
here today.
CSWs and IDUs
added to high HIV epidemic during the past decade, former health minister Prof Mathura
Shrestha said, quoting the findings of nine separate studies conducted in as many
districts of the country.
Shrestha was
speaking at the two-day workshop organised by National Centre for AIDS and STD Control
(NCASC) to review the first phase of national strategy to control HIV/AIDS and other
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
With support
from UNDP, NCASC had launched a 12-year-programme in 1988 to control STDs and HIV/AIDS in
the nine districts, said Mahesh Sharma, National Programme Manager for HIV/AIDS at UNDP.
The districts are Doti, Makawanpur, Rupandehi, Syangja, Dadeldhura, Sunsari, Parsa, Morang
and Achham, he said.
The workshop
was attended by representatives from all the concerned districts. "The workshop will
make strategies for second phase which will start next January," organisers said.
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