Banyumas position as a regional transit, tourism, and business center and services make this area has a high degree of vulnerability to spread the HIV virus. This terl're seeing from the data 253 cases of HIV in this region which mostly occurred in the six districts that are crossing the region, tourism and service centers.
Six districts are District Baturraden, four districts in Navan, and Wangon. From year to year, found the number of cases of HIV / AIDS in the region continues to increase.
Chairman of the National AIDS Commission (NAC) Banyumas, Kristin Lester, Tuesday (3 / 2), reveals, Banyumas now become the main crossing areas in the western part of Central Java. Many terminals and vehicle transportation and transit through this region.
In Wangon, for example, be a crossroads for the community that led to Bandung, Cilacap, and Yogyakarta. This area has always been a haven while the drivers transport goods or people.
This stopover become vulnerable because later there is interaction, especially with a truck driver. Transmission can be through sexual intercourse. In addition, rest stops also lead to social and cultural influences outside. "It's proven a lot of cases of HIV / AIDS in Wangon for through drug needles," said Kristin.
In Baturraden many transmission because of the region a center of prostitution in Banyumas. Transmission can be done faster with a lack of awareness of condom use by guests during a date with commercial sex workers in the region.
HIV-AIDS transmission is relatively high prostitution area indicated by the high percentage for heterosexual intercourse as the cause of HIV / AIDS, which reached 56 percent. This figure exceeds the other factors such as the use of syringes by 30 percent, 8 percent of homosexual relationships, and 3 percent of blood transfusions.
Navan Town, the capital of Banyumas in recent years developed cuku p rapidly. The city is the center of services and education. No doubt, many immigrants present in this city. Foreign cultures, such as drug use was rampant, one of them among the students and college students.
The data collected by KPA Banyumas, 12 percent of 253 HIV cases in Banyumas occurred among students. "Students and student vulnerable to HIV transmission, especially with the spread of injecting drug use," he said.
An estimated number of HIV cases in Banyumas 253 is only dipermukaa n. According to the Head of the PMI Headquarters Banyumas, Sutoro, in early January and PMI Banyumas found 72 bags of HIV-infected blood. Blood-blood came from donors. Unfortunately, not all donors can be identified.
PMI currently lack the budget to hold a blood processing. Operational test is also more expensive. If, blood tests can we optimize, sebernarnya will be more cases that could be found, he asserted.
