A Needle in Kampung Bali
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
On World AIDS Day came shocking news: much of the spread of AIDS in this country is due to people injecting drugs.
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BEHIND the skyscrapers of Jakarta lies an old neighborhood known as Kampung Bali, where a hypodermic needle hangs on a wooden gate-post. Day and night the needle is there ready to give its users a high from putaw, the Indonesian word for low-grade street heroin. But the needle is devoid of even the simplest form of sterilization of alcohol or bleach, making it the one big source of a growing HIV colony.
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