Coffetoday Nov 12 , 2010 - People with infectious diseases of HIV / AIDS in Surabaya based on data from Health Office (DHO) Surabaya highest known among experienced housewife. Section Head of Disease Prevention and Eradication (P2P) DHO Surabaya, Ponco Nugroho said based on data collected Health workers in Surabaya, June 2010 HIV / AIDS in Surabaya reached 220 people. “That number continues to grow, and until September 2010 it grows to be 547 people. Of that total at least 16 sufferers had died,” he said.
According to him, people living with numbers HIV / AIDS in Surabaya was today is no longer dominated by commercial sex workers, but instead come from the housewives. During the year 2010, people living with HIV / AIDS than among housewives as many as 70 people, with details of whom 39 people infected with the HIV virus and 31 other people tested positive for AIDS. When compared with the previous year, that number has increased. Because in 2009, among housewives living with HIV / AIDS only 63 people. “But we can not mention the numbers rise as the year 2010 have not been exhausted,” he said. Then, the second largest number of people living with HIV / AIDS came from among sex workers, namely with 63 patients with details of 60 newly infected sex workers and 3 sides were HIV positive. In addition to commercial sex workers and housewives, the deadly virus has also plagued the military / police, students, entrepreneurs and paramedics.
In Surabaya it is noted there are 13 members of the uniformed services with HIV / AIDS, where four of whom had AIDS positive. Then, from among the Civil Servants, there are three persons otherwise affected by HIV / AIDS, and nine other patients from among the students. Ponco explained, the higher number of people living with HIV / AIDS is detected can not be separated from the consciousness of society itself. Now this interest of the community who visit the “Vlontare Conseling and Testing” (VCT) centers in three districts for early detection is getting higher. “This is also the success of officers in the early detection,” he said. Related to the problem of transmission, many factors that cause the spread of HIV / AIDS . However, the most dominant is the behavior of the people themselves who often have multiple sexual partners and drug use. “Those two factors are the main factors outbreak of the virus,” he added.
