Aids in Iraq

A man walks through a corredor of the looted Ibn Zuhur Hospital. While the total number of people living with HIV remains small in Iraq, many have reported numerous infringements of their civil liberties, including having to sign a form agreeing only to marry others with the virus. Others say they were virtually imprisoned at the AIDS/HIV ward at the Ibn Zuhr Hospital. If the pre-war situation of denial may not have been ideal, the postwar situation is worse, as most people registered with AIDS no longer go to the hospital, looted of all its equipment. This means that monitoring the disease has become practically impossible, as patients no longer receive their monthly checkups.(Australfoto/Douglas Engle)

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A man walks through a corredor of the looted Ibn Zuhur Hospital. While the total number of people living with HIV remains small in Iraq, many have reported numerous infringements of their civil liberties, including having to sign a form agreeing only to marry others with the virus. Others say they were virtually imprisoned at the AIDS/HIV ward at the Ibn Zuhr Hospital. If the pre-war situation of denial may not have been ideal, the postwar situation is worse, as most people registered with AIDS no longer go to the hospital, looted of all its equipment. This means that monitoring the disease has become practically impossible, as patients no longer receive their monthly checkups.(Australfoto/Douglas Engle)