Iran determined to fight AIDS
Dr. Mohammad Reza Jahani, Vice President of ‘Committee to Counteract Drugs’, announced that two condom machines would be installed in poor districts of Tehran. These machines would serve sterile syringe as well.
Multiple use of the same syringe is believed to be number one cause of AIDS infection between drug addicts. Beforehand, sterile syringes were to be distributed in prisons where drug addicts used to share one syringe. This is part of a comprehensive effort to fight AIDS. This effort included a plan to produce introductory materials for high school students, describing AIDS and ways to avoid HIV infection. Use of condom was introduced to students as well, and Ayatollahs in Qom (the city in south of Tehran and home to the most powerful and conservative Shiite clergies) appeared to be approving of the plan.
Dr. Mohammad Reza Jahani added that Iran is the main route of drug smugglers transporting opiates from Afghanistan (number one producer of opium) to Mideast, Turkey and Europe, and this fact contributes to the higher risk of addiction in Iran.
Source: Isna (Persian)
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I remember some time back, it was the day of AIDs education or so, I went to the university to find out our class is not ging to be held, instead a young Dr. was presenting his numerous slides and going on about AIDS, carefully not crossing the line of addressing the question without any direct references….
Many people were in the large classroom, including the head of the department and others, we were really bored, bored with the pictures of decomposing bodies in the slides, that is not the right way to bring about AIDS awareness I guess, I loudly suggested from the hind row,” I hope all the men who marry the second , third, forht wife be infected” , and you cannot believe how many women shouted AMen Amen!!
sometimes ‘relative progress’ (instead of ‘absolute progress’) makes a better sense as a measure of what a country is doing in the way of development. and Iran is doing a good job in this case, I mean AIDS, if we consider its relative progress (relative to both its past and its neighbors).
and I wish the same for all the girls who cheat on their lovers, proud of being Modern
Mohammad, no second wife ok ?
I’m still paying for the first