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Regency concerned by rising HIV/AIDS cases

Cilacap Deputy Regent Ahmad Edi Susanto says hisadministration will be paying close attention to the incidence of HIV/AIDS, ashousewives now accounted for about 26 percent of the total number of HIV/AIDScases in the regency in Central Java

The Jakarta Post

Cilacap

Sat, August 9, 2014 Published on Aug. 9, 2014 Published on 2014-08-09T08:11:54+07:00

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ilacap Deputy Regent Ahmad Edi Susanto says hisadministration will be paying close attention to the incidence of HIV/AIDS, ashousewives now accounted for about 26 percent of the total number of HIV/AIDScases in the regency in Central Java.

'We are closely monitoring five districts with the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases by establishing a WPA [AIDS care community] and a VCT [voluntary counseling test] clinics,' Edi said on Friday.

Recently, the VCT clinic in the regency-owned Cilacap Hospital counseled five married couples living with HIV/AIDS who reside in the same neighborhood. It was discovered that the couples swapped spouses with one another.

The clinic's manager, Rubino, said the clinic's counseling program focused on educating couples on how to prevent mother-to-child transmissions of the disease.

Cilacap is home to around 400 people with HIV/AIDS, while 47 people in the regency have died of the virus. The figure keeps increasing. In 2005, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the regency was less than 100.