54 students in Jayapura infected by HIV/AIDS
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sun, 01/22/2012 2:34 PM
The Jayapura branch of the AIDS Prevention Commission (KPA) has discovered that 54 students in Jayapura regency have become infected by HIV/AIDS.
“These students would have been able to avoid this if they had come to us earlier to be tested,” KPA secretary Purnomo said on Sunday as quoted by kompas.com.
He acknowledged, however, that this could be an "iceberg phenomenon", meaning the figure might not represent the actual number of those affected by HIV/AIDS.
The discovery of 54 infected students from Jayapura is just one part of the bigger picture, in which the
KPA maintains that 796 people in the regency, from all social strata, have been infected by the disease. (dic)
