According to the Washington Post's article, Number of Kazakh Children With HIV 96" published on March 15 2007, the HIV virus has made its way into yet another country. The number of children in southern Kazakhstan has reached 96. This outbreak is blamed on doctrors' negligence. 13 mothers were also said to have contracted the virus. This occured through injections or blood transfusions at hospitals in the city of Shymkent, 1000 miles south of the capital. Eight of these children have already died from the disease. The government has began testing thousands of mothers and children that may be at risk of having or contracting HIV. A nationwide inspection has revealed many cases of "incompetence and corruption among doctors and nurses." 21 of these doctors are being accused of causing the outbreak and are going on trial in Shymkent.
Think it is horrible that AIDS is slowly taking anothjer country but I am impressed that the government is blaming people who deserve blame and that it is finding other people at risk to keep the outbreak to a minimum.
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This is horrible, you would think that the problems and dangerous issues that surrounds HIV and the spread of AIDS would be enough to make people use safe standard practices.
Yes I would agree--it is nice to see that a foreign government is taking the proper actions to quickly ensure that this problem does not reach an uncontrollable level within their country.
I also agree - proper safety measure are not that hard to maintain. It just takes some work. I hope they get their act together or soon they could have a real problem on their hands.
There have been problems with unsafe blood transfusions that have caused the AIDS virus to spread. A similar situation even occured in Italy-- which is a developed nation! Another one of the key problems is that governments remain ignorant and in denial of the issue at large.
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