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HIV AIDS

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 posted by healthy 3:45 am
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Stop HIV AIDS

Even if by some miraculous measure we can completely cut off all the possible ways that HIV AIDS can be spread, we will still see a sharp increase in the number of people with HIV AIDS five years from now.
This is the statement made by Doctor Suharto, SpKO, DPH from National AIDS Commission. He also said that only Thailand and Australia have successfully managed to control the increase rate of the number of people with HIV AIDS. Indonesia, like many other countries in Asia, is still struggling with the horrific number of new HIV AIDS cases every year.

Based on a report from the Ministry of Health, until September 3338 people have been infected by HIV, with 2363 confirmed AIDS cases. It is also reported that the biggest cause of HIV AIDS transmission is not heterosexual intercourse (39.7%), or homosexual intercourse (6.2%), but the use of syringe to inject drugs (40.5%). Readmore…

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