Kuala Lumpur, 18th December 2008: The announcement today by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to extend nationwide pre-marital HIV testing for all Muslims in Malaysia is alarming. Scaling up HIV counselling and testing services is a critical step for scaling up HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support. Knowing your HIV status is […]
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Our condolences to the family of our resident, Chok who went home to his Lord on the morning of 13 Dec 2008. Yet we are comforted that he had gone home to be with his God in a far better place. “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death […]
Malaysia may have 300,000 people affected by HIV by 2015, said Datuk Dr. Hassan Abdul Rahman, the Director of the Disease Control Divison of the Health Ministry. To combat this epidemic, the Government has committed RM500mil to implement the National Strategic Plan on AIDS and the Harm Reduction programme between 2006 and 2010, he said […]
With an average of 12 Malaysians testing positive for HIV each day, Malaysia has one of the fastest growing AIDS epidemics in the East Asia and Pasific region. What is more worrying is that the trend is gaining a feminine face, mainly through heterosexsual transmission. A new report released bt the Health Ministry and United […]
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“Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise” December 1 is World AIDS Day! Sorry to inform that the AIDS pandemic has not gone away including here in Malaysia. We need to do more prevention and we need to do it soon. Meantime we need to care more about people living with HIV in our country as well […]