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AIDS awareness still

low in Malaysia, says
expert
BY MELATI A. JALIL
Published: 25 November 2014
UMMC's Adeeba (2nd from right) and

Director of TemanTeman Tarandeep
Anand pose with their ambassadors
Carmen Soo (left) and Diana Danielle
during the launching of its one-stop
resource centre for HIV/AIDS at a mall in
Kuala Lumpur today. - The Malaysian
Insider pic by Najjua Zulkei, November
25, 2014.
While AIDS-related
deaths in the
Asia-Pacific region
have declined by
nearly 40%, Malaysia
recorded an increase of
20% in the number of
deaths since 2005.
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The lack of awareness and

reluctance to get tested were
among the factors contributing
to the increase, said Universiti
Malayas Medical Faculty dean
and Medicine and Infectious
Diseases Professor Dr Adeeba
Kamarulzaman.
She said this today at the
launch of TemanTeman
(http://www.temanteman.org),
a one-stop service centre
providing comprehensive
information related to
HIV/AIDS and sexuallytransmitted diseases.
Last year,
she said
there
were
3,393
new HIV
cases
reported
in
Malaysia
an
average of nine cases per day
while there was an estimated
86,324 people living with HIV,
which is about 0.44% of the
total population.
However, the number is
expected to increase to 91,733
in 2015.
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Dr Adeeba said out of that

figure, only 45% of
HIV-infected people were
receiving treatment.
"A fair proportion of them are
unfortunately in prison or on
the streets, and they are not
coming forward for various
reasons," she said.
"Many of the HIV-infected
people only came for
treatment when they were
already at the advanced stage
of the disease... and it makes it
much more difficult for us to
treat them," she said.
"We need to encourage them
individually to come forward,
and secondly our system has
to be more receptive towards
their needs," she said.
Meanwhile, project director
Tarandeep Anand said the
objective behind the launch of
TemanTeman
(http://www.temanteman.org),
was to increase awareness
about the epidemic and the
importance of early HIV
testing in Malaysia.
"We offer transparent
information about tests, HIV,
STIs, as well as the treatment
and care services available in
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Malaysia," he said.
Tarandeep added that the
collaboration with Universiti
Malaya Medical Centre's
(UMMC)Department of
Infectious Diseases and Centre
of Excellence for Research in
AIDS (CERiA) will result in
patients having access
virtually on how HIV
treatment is done in Malaysia
at tertiary referral hospitals.
"We also have new feature like
'Online Mapping System' for
friendly HIV testing and
treatment sites in the country.
"For instance, when they click
one of the points on the map, a
video will emerge and patients
can see the possible doctors
they are going to meet at the
treatment sites," he said.
The project was previously
launched in Indonesia in
January last year. November
25, 2014.
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