The research from Bali Health Foundation (Yakeba) showed that approximately four thousands of Indonesian workers who work all over the world infected by HIV.
Bob Monthouse, the Director of Yakeba, said “those who already infected by HIV usually deported back to Indonesia through Soekarno Hatta Airport. However, the data was taken only from Soekarno Hatta Airport and not from other airports in Indonesia. Several other airports such as Surabaya, Batam, Medan and Makasar was unditected so may be the number of the workers infected by HIV is double than the current data.”
Mounthouse added that most of the workers who infected by the virus work in factories, textile industries, farming, or house maid. The uncontrolled sex and being rape can cause the disease spread among them. They also must suffer other consequences because of HIV. They often alienated by the society and didn’t receive the proper services. The person infected by HIV has the risk to transmit the disease to others.
“they often didn’t aware that they already infected with HIV so they still blend with other people. Maybe this is the cause why the number of people suffer from the desease increase from time to time,” he said.
Based on the data from Indonesian Health Department, the hIV and AIDS cases in Indonesia until March 2009 were 23,632 cases and 3,492 of them had died. The National Commission for AIDS Handling predicted that the cases detected in Indonesia is only 15% from the total cases. The rest of them maybe didn’t receive the proper medication for their sickness.
Monthouse said “many Indonesian people think that HIV and AIDS is far away from their live but they didn’t aware that they alienated their friends and relatives suffer from HIV or AIDS.”
News by International Bali Post
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