Programme for damage decrease with View of HIV/AIDS affected people who are drug addicts   Intravenous abuse of drugs most dangerous! As far as 60 % of the newly affected people with HIV virus in Europe and Asia are the drug addicts who abuse the psycho-active substances, mostly heroin, with intravenous injecting.                “The intravenous drug abuse is more dangerous than any other drug abuse, since exactly the intravenous drug abuse can bring to transmission of the HIV virus as well as the hepatitis C and B. This is confirmed with the fact that as far as 60 % of the newly affected people with HIV virus in Europe and Asia, are drug addicts who abuse the psycho-active substances, mostly heroin, with intravenous injecting.”             This was stated by Dr. Slavica Gajdazis- Knezevic, the director of the psychiatric hospital in Skopje on the panel Programme for damage decrease with View of HIV/AIDS affected people who are drug addicts in organization of the civic association Trust.             Why this programme for damage decrease? We can not set unreal targets and ask from the addicts to stop taking drugs just by saying that they have to strengthen their will in order to seclude themselves from the vice. It just isn’t possible, since the drug addicts have a serious problem with their will and personality; hence the need of programmes for damage decrease is to help those who abuse the psycho-active substances intravenously”, stated Dr. Gajdazis- Knezevic. Dr. Natka Kocovska said that the exact number of drug addicts in our country is not known, but we are talking about a number of around 30.000 people, 8-10.000 of which have serious body, mental or sociological problems. The data that the number of drug addict in Macedonia has raised for 200% is frightening. The drug addicts who take drugs intravenously behave risky. It is wide-known that the syringe exchange and often changing of sexual partners are the two main reasons for the rise in the number of HIV affected people. Thus on a questionnaire given to 630 drug addicts, who abuse the psycho-active substances, 58 % said that they take drugs intravenously, 43 % admitted to having done exchange of the injecting equipment with other addicts, and 16% from the questioned, stated that they do the exchange with 4 to 5 other addicts. “The state has to face the problem of drug addiction. Absence of finance is not an excuse. Some of the projects have failed only because of the bad organization and the inability to conduct them, and thousands of dollars have been spent on numerous trainings for projects that have never functioned. Drug addicts must not be marginalized as they are part of our society”, stated at the end Dr. Slavica Gajdazis- Knezevic.