Innocents Lost
Despite the rapid spread of HIV in Indonesia the full extent of the current and future impact on vulnerable groups such as infants and children is still largely unknown.
February 17, 2009
FIGURES of children flying kites emerge from the thick smoke of burning plastic in West Jakarta’s suburb of Kota Bamboo Seletan. Amongst them, wearing faded Spiderman pajamas and shiny red shoes, 2-½-year-old Sahrta holds the hand of an outreach worker. He attempts to distract the girl from watching her parents prepare heroin just a few feet away.
“I’ve been doing heroin for more than 10 years,” says Fitri in her fluent English, “I wa
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