In the shocking revelation, it was found that 10 persons who shared syringes for drug infusion are HIV bearers in the Valancry in the district. The health authorities confirmed that six of them were migrant workers from other countries.
It was a routine screening of prison made by Keral AIDS Control Society, which in December tested one of the newly arrested drug users on HIV. A detailed screening of the person has suspicious of the possibility that the virus has expanded to others who have constantly contacted it.
Up to 15 contacts of this person were tested at different times until March and nine of them were found to be a positive HIV. They were all drug users and shared syringes.
The district physician Renuka warned against a possible increase in HIV cases among drug users and quoted the vulnerability of this group to download and spread AIDS. Concerns Dr. Renuky came after it was found that all 10 people diagnosed with HIV in Valancry and its surroundings were drug users.
This is the first time in the state that such a large number of HIVs have been reported. “What is terrifying is that everyone is in the same cluster of drug injection,” said the district supervision officer Shaubin C. and raised concerns about potential ripple over the infected group.
Alarmically, several of them are married. The possibility of infecting their partners cannot be excluded. However, the authorities said that the chances that HIV were spreading by intimate physical contact were far below the chance of blood transfusions and sharing syringes.
Published – 27 March 2025 20:43
