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Ashraf Balha, head of the Libyan Technocrats Gathering party, questioned the accuracy of official data on the number of( HIV) infections in Libya.
Balha explained in a press statement that the social stigma to which some people infected with the virus are exposed, even by some hospital workers, pushes the well-to-do class of them to be treated abroad despite the high costs of treatment.
Balha added that the country’s poor resort to herbal remedies because of the lack of adequate medical services or as a result of social discrimination to which they are subjected.
Balha concluded his statement by stressing that the source of continued transmission will continue to exist with cross-border human smuggling, noting that the settlement of irregular migrants in the country may be the reason for the transmission of the virus through known infections.
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