Even as Manipur's BJP government has publicised a 'war on drugs', TNM has found that heroin has gotten cheaper and more popular in the state with high school students increasingly prone to drug addiction.
The National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme is not being implemented effectively in Kangpokpi district due to lack of required infrastructure and awareness among the increasing number of PWID in Kangpokpi district.
Lack of awareness, limited political commitment, as well as fear of stigma and discrimination continue to stop injecting drug users from accessing free of cost testing and treatment for Hepatitis at hospitals.
The court had in 2019 told the Centre and the Manipur government to provide medicines and treatment in an affordable and efficient manner to HIV patients.