A risky jab and HIV threat put Kerala’s Valanchery in alert mode

The news that 10 injecting drug users in a local body in Malappuram district have tested positive for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has come as a rude shock to the State. Abdul Latheef Naha tracks the risky behaviour of drug users to find out how the practice has put their lives in peril, besides upsetting the health plans of the State