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Title: HIV / AIDs and Human Rights in Manipur
Author: Wahengbam Gyanibala
About the Author:
Dr. Wahengbam Gyanibala has completed her M.A. (Sociology)
from MS University, Vadodara. She completed her PhD. from Manipur University.
She is currently working with Government of Manipur.
About the book:
When one
studies about HIV/AIDS in Manipur, he comes to understand the importance of
studying drug abuse or use in Manipur as the first HIV positive cases were
reported among the IDUs (Injecting Drug Users). Studies show that popping of
pills was a common practice especially among the urban youths in the early
1970s. By late 1970s there was a shift in the practice of using drugs, a
section of youths started injecting morphine and soon injecting of
morphine became very common and popular
among the then youths and it spreaded like a fashion in Manipur. In the mid 1980s there was scarcity in the
availability of morphine in Imphal and heroin was introduced to the morphine
injectors as a substitute. From the mid 1980s injecting of heroin among the
youths turn in to an epidemic proportion.
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