Re:Most injections in India are unsafe

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Dear friends,

Re: /message/7228

I just came back from Bangladesh yesterday where, there too, injections and

blood collection are NOT done safely on a national basis and yet the AIDS

program focuses on alledged 'denial of unsafe sex' to explain mounting HIV

epidemic and very high levels of Hep B while C is rising.

However, there are a large number of typing errors in the text below on India,

some of which are serious errors, such as saying that the WHO asserts that 5% of

12 to 16 billion injections for care are unsafe. Th WHO figure is 50%, FIFTY

PERCENT, not five percent, and the WHO person in charge of injection safety says

it reaches 70% in parts of Africa.

Was that mistake in the Hindustan Times or only in the person copying the

article?

Thanks to Marc Kosta for pointing out the problem anyhow.

Nance

Garance Upham

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