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13 percent of HIV/AIDS cases involving minors
KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: The provincial branch of the AIDS Eradication Commission (KPA) has recorded 70 HIV/AIDS cases involving 10 school-aged children below the ages of 15, or 2 percent of the 538 total cases in the province
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UPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: The provincial branch of the AIDS Eradication Commission (KPA) has recorded 70 HIV/AIDS cases involving 10 school-aged children below the ages of 15, or 2 percent of the 538 total cases in the province.
Some 60 people between the ages of 15 and 24 were also infected, making up 11 percent of the total, while 4 percent of people above the age of 24 were infected with the HIV virus.
Contacted in Kupang on Friday, KPA secretary Husein Pancratius said some of the infected school-aged children were registered as students in a number of schools.
"The exact number of students with HIV/AIDS is still unclear, but some students in several regencies have been positively diagnosed as having HIV," Pancratius said.
He added HIV-positive students were allowed to attend classes, but would be monitored so as not to spread the virus to other students.
