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The South Pacific island nation of Fiji has declared a national state of emergency over a growing HIV outbreak. An estimated 1 in 60 adults is infected, putting Fiji sharply at odds with the global trend of declining new HIV infections. The scale of the crisis came to light after the country first declared an epidemic in January 2025 and expanded testing. The spread of methamphetamine has been cited as a contributing factor, and on the forum thread many commenters pointed to shared needles and blood during drug use as the likely cause, while others discussed sexual transmission and mother-to-child transmission — with some exchanges reaffirming that HIV still cannot be fully cured.
(CNN) — The small South Pacific nation of Fiji has declared a national state of emergency amid a spreading HIV outbreak, with the proliferation of methamphetamine cited as a contributing factor.
Fiji, with a population of under one million, is estimated to have HIV infection in 1 in every 60 adults. While the virus remains incurable but treatable, global infection rates have been falling — a trend Fiji is bucking.
Fiji first declared an HIV epidemic in January 2025, and expanded testing since then has revealed the scale of a deepening public health crisis.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
It's probably already here
Surely that wouldn't even get you high though?
Are they even matching blood types?
😨😨😨
This is way beyond just needing better education
Ecstasy (MDMA) is a derivative of methamphetamine, but its psychoactive effects are quite different
Wait, is it curable now?
It's not curable, but taking expensive medication continuously can suppress the onset of symptoms.
That's rough
What happened there
I thought HIV was supposed to be curable these days
But the damage must still be huge
Isn't the cause the same as that Kiribati "Korekore" thing? (Korekore is a Japanese livestreamer known for on-the-street exposés)
Huh, so it's still not curable
Apparently there have been cases where someone being treated for leukemia received a bone marrow transplant from a donor with a rare mutation that confers HIV resistance, and ended up cured of HIV as a side effect
So the structure of the blood itself changes then
I think organ or bone marrow transplants can normalize various abnormalities, but that just means it's bringing about a huge change to the body
Transplant surgery itself carries major risk to begin with
Being able to accept a new organ at all is basically a special talent
Some percentage of people just die
If symptoms are showing, that's already AIDS
Apparently infected people all get thirsty after eating and their heart rate goes up after intense exercise
That's literally what they're asking — what the actual symptoms are
I kind of recall hearing from someone with HIV that if you walk up a staircase and end up on the floor above, or if you open the fridge and the door opens, you're quite likely infected with HIV
So there should be an mRNA vaccine for it by now.
But you don't really hear about one.
Why is that? The market size should be huge.
Because it's a disease that doesn't touch people in power
Nobody asked for such a boring truth
Background and Discussion Points
Fiji, a South Pacific island nation with a population under one million, first declared an HIV epidemic in January 2025, and expanded testing since then has revealed the severity of the outbreak. While new HIV infections are declining globally, Fiji is bucking that trend, with needle-sharing tied to the spread of methamphetamine cited as a contributing factor. On the thread, more commenters pointed to blood exchanged during drug use than to sexual transmission as the likely cause, and the article’s figure that 59 infants contracted the virus through mother-to-child transmission last year also drew attention. At the same time, some baseless assumptions singling out sexual orientation, region, or nationality appeared as well — these unfounded prejudices should be read separately from the article-based point about needle-sharing during meth use. It’s also easy to overlook that HIV still cannot be cured today; the standard approach remains medication that suppresses symptom onset rather than a cure.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Breaking News Plus) thread “[International] Fiji Declares National State of Emergency Over HIV Outbreak — 1 in 60 Adults Infected.”
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