People with HIV / AIDS in the city of Semarang Increase

The number of people living with HIV / AIDS in Semarang city continues to grow from year to year. Early detection of people at risk for this disease contributed to data collection on the number of patients.

reveals, the number of people living with HIV starting from the year 1995-2008 reached 674 people, while people with AIDS to 96 people. Of these, 18 patients of whom died.

Based on data from Semarang City Health Office, within the last four years, the trend number of people living with HIV continues to rise. For example, there were 50 patients with HIV in 2005, 179 people living with HIV in 2006, 195 patients in 2007, and 199 patients in 2008.

The number of people living with AIDS in the city of Semarang also go up. There are 11 carriers in 2005, 25 carriers in 2006, 33 carriers in 2007, and 15 carriers in 2008.

Tati said, the increasing number of patients indicates that people at risk of contracting HIV / AIDS began to open to participate in various examination tests of this disease.

Section Head of Prevention and Eradication of Communicable Diseases Jump DHO Semarang Tri Susilo Hadi said, of the total patients, 80 percent of whom were infected through sexual intercourse, while the rest of the use of hypodermic needles on narcotics and transmission from mother to child.

"As many as 60 percent of them are located in the productive age or between 20-40 years. No wonder, if the patient most of the commercial sex workers or people who frequently bergonta couples," he said.

Tri Susilo added, there are seven programs that can assist in combating the spread of HIV / AIDS, among others, behavior change communication, voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), care, support, and treatment (CST); prevention of transmission from HIV positive mothers to their children ; reducing the impact of injecting drug use; 100 percent condom use program, and community health education through media and schools. "We also distribute leaflets and posters in risky places such as localization and resorts," he said.

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