HIV-a virus that causes AIDS and causes the immune system to allow life threatening infections and cancers to thrive. All across Greek, there is a rapid increase in patients testing positive for HIV. The sources are infected needles through drug users, unprotected heterosexual and homosexual sex, and mothers passing them to their babies unknowingly. The disease is not only bringing actual complications from being HIV positive, but also the up rise of suicide, prostitution, heroin substitution and antidepressant use. “By comparison in the United States, cases are increasing by around 7 percent annually.”
“’Contagion’ is the label financial markets use for the economic spread of the Greek crisis. For hundreds of people in an increasingly chaotic society, the word has a deadlier meaning.”
Since times are getting harder, more people are injecting drugs rather that smoking or sniffing it because the hit is bigger that way. More drug injecting means more infected needles being passed around. Some people are trying to correct their unfixable mistake by getting cleaned up and going to detox programs with the hope of having the government pay for their treatment. While some are able to attain this by making social security contributions, others are being “shot down” because they can’t find a job that pays enough to make those contributions. A large portion of these people are living in shelters with no hope now. The fact that there is so many people living in Greece have HIV is not what’s so shocking, it’s how fast it’s spreading.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/10/us-greece-hiv-idUSTRE7A961V20111110
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