Malaysia Expected To Achieve Millennium Development Goals On HIV/AIDS
By, Malaysian National News Agency, October 1, 2007
Malaysia is expected to achieve the Millennium Development Goals on HIV/Aids after the government's programmes to reduce the spread of the disease have begun to yield positive results, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Monday.
The deputy prime minister said that the long-term effects of the methadone replacement therapy, exchange of syringes and anti-rectroviral treatment programmes were expected be seen by 2010.
"If this is achieved, Malaysia is expected to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in three target areas, namely reducing child and maternal mortality and the spread of HIV," he told reporters after chairing a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Aids here.
He said the methadone replacement therapy programme would be extended to 25,000 HIV sufferers by 2010, from 5,000 people under the programme this year.
The programme had enabled 66 per cent of HIV carries to hold down permanent jobs and 24 per cent to do general work after 12 months of treatment, he said.
A total of 76,389 HIV/Aids were detected in the country last year.
Of the 5,800 new cases detected last year, 32 per cent contracted the disease through sex.
HIV screening last detected 15.6 per cent of the HIV carriers in the drug rehabilitation centres, 5.3 per cent in prisons and 8.9 per cent in tuberculosis (TB) centres while 0.13 per cent were detected through pre-nuptial tests and 0.03 per cent involved pregnant mothers, he said.
Source: http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=287856
Malaysia is expected to achieve the Millennium Development Goals on HIV/Aids after the government's programmes to reduce the spread of the disease have begun to yield positive results, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Monday.
The deputy prime minister said that the long-term effects of the methadone replacement therapy, exchange of syringes and anti-rectroviral treatment programmes were expected be seen by 2010.
"If this is achieved, Malaysia is expected to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in three target areas, namely reducing child and maternal mortality and the spread of HIV," he told reporters after chairing a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Aids here.
He said the methadone replacement therapy programme would be extended to 25,000 HIV sufferers by 2010, from 5,000 people under the programme this year.
The programme had enabled 66 per cent of HIV carries to hold down permanent jobs and 24 per cent to do general work after 12 months of treatment, he said.
A total of 76,389 HIV/Aids were detected in the country last year.
Of the 5,800 new cases detected last year, 32 per cent contracted the disease through sex.
HIV screening last detected 15.6 per cent of the HIV carriers in the drug rehabilitation centres, 5.3 per cent in prisons and 8.9 per cent in tuberculosis (TB) centres while 0.13 per cent were detected through pre-nuptial tests and 0.03 per cent involved pregnant mothers, he said.
Source: http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=287856
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