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Experts beat on the alarm because of the danger of practice
Photo: Vitalikradko/Depositphotos
This practice that has arisen in the poor in Africa and Asia, allows you to share a “cheap kife” and at the same time promotes a splash of HIV incidence in hot spots of infection in many parts of the world, told In The New York Times.
Blood exchange for the sake of drugs has appeared in areas with high poverty in Africa and Asia due to increased drug control, a sharp increase in prices for prohibited substances and falling their supplies.
“In extreme poverty, it is a way to reach a drug intoxication that has many consequences. It actually get two doses at a price of one,” – explained Bryan Zonon, Professor of the University of Emory, who studied injecting drugs in South Africa.
Research showedthat 18% of people with drug addiction used the method of blood exchange. In Pakistan, practice involves the sale of half used syringes with injectable drugs.
In Fiji, where in January the outbreak of HIV was declared, the authorities found blushing one of the factors of alarming the spread of the disease. According to UNAIDS, the number of new cases of infection has increased ten times from 2014 to 2024.
“It is a combination of poverty and insufficient awareness, as well as rising prices after conducting cheap drug,-says the director of regional UNAIDS support groups in the Asia-Pacific, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, Eimon Murphy.
Until experts are undertaken to evaluate the extent of practice, as the phenomenon is difficult to measure.
However, even with the involvement of a small number of people, the trend can quickly spread dangerous diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis. Therefore, experts believe that blusing requires decisive response measures.
It is not clear how high the level of influence is the secondary consumers. Some medical experts consider this placebo effect. The scientist Zamon called the trend “little -studied but extremely risky.”
“This is an ideal way to spread HIV. The speed you can face a massive splash of infection through the effectiveness of its transmission is an alarming signal for health and governments”– Catherine Cook Catherine Catherine is convinced.
Recently in Ukraine exposed a scheme for the sale of psychotropic substances that masked under drugs for weight loss.
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Experts beat on the alarm because of the danger of practice
Photo: Vitalikradko/Depositphotos
This practice that has arisen in the poor in Africa and Asia, allows you to share a “cheap kife” and at the same time promotes a splash of HIV incidence in hot spots of infection in many parts of the world, told In The New York Times.
Blood exchange for the sake of drugs has appeared in areas with high poverty in Africa and Asia due to increased drug control, a sharp increase in prices for prohibited substances and falling their supplies.
“In extreme poverty, it is a way to reach a drug intoxication that has many consequences. It actually get two doses at a price of one,” – explained Bryan Zonon, Professor of the University of Emory, who studied injecting drugs in South Africa.
Research showedthat 18% of people with drug addiction used the method of blood exchange. In Pakistan, practice involves the sale of half used syringes with injectable drugs.
In Fiji, where in January the outbreak of HIV was declared, the authorities found blushing one of the factors of alarming the spread of the disease. According to UNAIDS, the number of new cases of infection has increased ten times from 2014 to 2024.
“It is a combination of poverty and insufficient awareness, as well as rising prices after conducting cheap drug,-says the director of regional UNAIDS support groups in the Asia-Pacific, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, Eimon Murphy.
Until experts are undertaken to evaluate the extent of practice, as the phenomenon is difficult to measure.
However, even with the involvement of a small number of people, the trend can quickly spread dangerous diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis. Therefore, experts believe that blusing requires decisive response measures.
It is not clear how high the level of influence is the secondary consumers. Some medical experts consider this placebo effect. The scientist Zamon called the trend “little -studied but extremely risky.”
“This is an ideal way to spread HIV. The speed you can face a massive splash of infection through the effectiveness of its transmission is an alarming signal for health and governments”– Catherine Cook Catherine Catherine is convinced.
Recently in Ukraine exposed a scheme for the sale of psychotropic substances that masked under drugs for weight loss.