PETALING JAYA: Religious and non-medical experts are urged to go to hospitals and see the ordeal of youths suffering from HIV and AIDS for themselves.
Dr Ummu Afeera Zainulabid took to Twitter to comment on the Selangor Mufti Department’s advisory for HIV prevention drug pre-exposure prophylaxis , to not be administered to homosexuals."A week or two of clinical attachments is insufficient. Come and see the complications from cytomegalovirus talaromycosis, cryptococcal meningitis, pneumocystis pneumonia, toxoplasmosis, histoplasmosis and other opportunistic infections," said the internal medicine specialist.
"We believe that with continuous education from good doctors, they will return to the path of God without being infected. They will then help their friends," she added. Former Health deputy director-general Datuk Dr Christopher Lee said PrEP was proven to reduce HIV transmission. "It is essential to ensure that health interventions to address public health priorities such as HIV/AIDS and most recently, Covid-19, are evidence informed, rights based and grounded in the realities of the communities we work with," he said in a statement.
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