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Romania told to stop segregating children with HIV
Thousands of HIV-positive children face discrimination in Romania, where vast, filthy orphanages were a breeding ground for AIDS before the 1989 fall of communism, a human rights group said on Wednesday.
A report by U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said Romania's failure to promote the integration of more than 7,200 sick children aged 15 to 19, the largest such group in any European state, has kept many from attending school, getting healthcare or jobs.
"There are thousands of infected children who will turn 18 in a year or two. Romania urgently needs to plan their future," Clarisa Bencomo, the author of the study, told a news conference.
"Unless authorities take urgent measures now, unchecked discrimination will push far too many of these children to the margins of society ... This is not an issue of resources, this is an issue related to political will."
Tens of thousands of children were abandoned in communist Romania following dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's ban on birth control as he dreamed of creating a worker society, modeled on the example of North Korea.
AIDS spread in orphanages because of unsafe medical practices, badly screened blood, routine blood transfusions for underweight babies and antibiotics administered by injection.
Fewer than 60 percent of children living with HIV attend school and those who do risk ostracism and abuse by teachers and expulsion if their status becomes known, the report said. Since 1990, Romania has attracted repeated criticism from pro-democracy groups over cases of breaching the rights of HIV-positive people, police violence and discrimination against homosexuals and ethnic minorities.
Romanian society has been slow to accept rights for its minorities and ignorance about AIDS remains widespread.
Bencomo said authorities must remove legislative barriers that have led to widespread discrimination such as mandatory HIV testing as a condition for employment.
"Children who are refused medical care get sicker ... children who are denied the right to education and work will not be able to support themselves and their families," Bencomo said.
She said Romania must also provide appropriate sanctions against civil servants, medical and social personnel for discrimination against sick people.
"We have to make a step forward and tell people we are normal human beings. We don't need mercy, we only need people to understand us," said Adrian, an HIV-infected teenager, who did not give his last name.
Pesticides still found in Coke, Pepsi: Indian study
August 2, 2006 04:23:42 PM PST
An environmental group said on Wednesday bottles of Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. soft drinks in India still contained traces of pesticide, highlighting weak food safety laws in the country.
"If soft drinks are the choice of millions, the least that can be done is that these drinks are regulated," said Sunita Narain, director of the Delhi-based Center for Science and Environment (CSE), at a news conference.
A 2003 study by CSE briefly dented the companies' sales when it said it found levels of pesticide in the companies' soft drinks in excess of international standards.
That study was endorsed by India's parliament though the soft drink majors said at the time the drinks were safe to consume and they repeated their stand on Wednesday.
But despite government vows of introducing legal limits for toxins in soft drinks, not enough had been done since 2003, CSE said.
The group called upon consumers to avoid drinking Coke and Pepsi and other soft drink brands produced by the two U.S. firms until they cleaned up the product.
The Indian Soft Drink Manufacturers Association, of which PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are members, said the soft drinks were safe to consume.
"The soft drinks manufactured in India comply with stringent international norms and all applicable national regulations," the industry body said in a statement.
The CSE said that pesticides are also present in other foods and drinks routinely consumed by Indians.
The new study found three to five different pesticides in 57 samples of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo drinks produced in 12 Indian states, CSE said.
The average amount of pesticide residues found in the samples was 11.85 parts per billion (ppb), 24 times higher than the permitted limit of 0.5 ppb recently drafted - but not yet implemented-- by the Bureau of Indian Standards, a government agency that sets safety and hygiene standards for commercial products.
In some cases, the levels were up to 200 times the limit.
The study in 2003 found pesticide residues on average 34 times higher than the 0.5ppb limit.
Officials at the Ministry of Health were unavailable for comment on the CSE report
