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Huge Rise in AIDS Cases Among Nepal Housewives
June 20, 2007 at 3:28 PM
AIDS/HIV News
According to Nepal's National Centre for AIDS and STD (sexually transmitted disease) Control, 1,883 housewives were found to be infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) till mid-May this year while the number had been 765 till December 2005.
In the past 18 months, the number of HIV infected children has also soared from 138 to 428 signifying a staggering 200 percent rise. "We are extremely concerned," said Giridhari Sharma Poudel, executive director of the Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN). The association runs intervention programmes in four remote districts as well as other campaigns and mobile health camps across the country.
Poudel attributed the rise in HIV cases among housewives to growing migration both within the country and abroad, mainly India and the Middle East. "You have all these migrant men leaving home in search of work and remaining away for periods of one to three years. "They have sexual contact while away from home, get infected and spread the infection to their wives when they return. The low condom use among families helps the infection spread," said Poudel.
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