Re: Libya to execute HIV medics. (A Justice Nightmare)
Relax, I was addressing these rather holier-than-thou statements that would be humorous if not so pompous.
Read on, from a source you can hardly quibble with:
**AIDS.. Hidden Crisis In Arab, Islamic Countries **
*By Mustafa Abdel-Halim, IOL Staff
*CAIRO, December 1 (IslamOnline.net) - As the number of AIDS patients has risen to a surprising - yet alarming - levels in Arab and Islamic countries over the last few years, many take the blame for the shortcomings to deep-rooted reticence about discussing the epidemic and reluctance of unscrupulous governments and apparently conservative societies to admit it.
Coinciding with World AIDS Day, Saudi Arabia announced Monday, December 1, that 6,787 are living with HIV infection, five times higher than the number of the cases reported by the conservative Islamic kingdom in early August 2002.
In Indonesia, the World’s largest Muslim country has a rapidly escalating level of infection among prostitutes, their customers, injection drug users and prisoners. “Indonesia has one of the fastest growing epidemics in the world,” Elizabeth Pisani, an epidemiologist with Aksi Stop AIDS, an AIDS prevention and care group, was quoted by Agence France-Presse (AFP) as saying.
In Malaysia, the country now has around 57,000 reported cases of HIV/AIDS compared to 54,000 as of June this year.
But the real number of could easily be more than double the official figure, as many fail to report their condition for fear of stigma or discrimination in conservative mainly-Muslim Malaysia.