Health Policy Watch news story
A graph showing the progression of HIV infections in Fiji resembles a cobra poised to strike. For years, the 330+ islands that make up Fiji had almost zero HIV cases, but the country’s 14-fold increase in infections over the past five years is represented by a near-vertical line rearing up over the country.
Around 12,000 people are believed to have HIV in a country of less than a million people spread over 100 or so habitable islands.
“What is driving this epidemic now is risky injecting drug use of people who currently inject methamphetamines,” said Dr Jason Mitchell, chair of Fiji’s National HIV Outbreak Cluster Response Task Force.
“In January 2025, we declared a national HIV outbreak, which was initially confined to the population of people who inject drugs. The epidemic is now spilling over into every other population group in the country,” Mitchell told a media briefing at AIDS 2026.
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Source : Health Policy Watch
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