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View all search resultsPrison moves inmates found HIV positive
Two inmates found to be HIV positive have been transferred from Bram Itam penitentiary in Kualatungkal city, West Tanjungjabung regency, to the Jambi penitentiary
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wo inmates found to be HIV positive have been transferred from Bram Itam penitentiary in Kualatungkal city, West Tanjungjabung regency, to the Jambi penitentiary.
Bram Itam penitentiary chief warden Wahyu Hidayat said the transfer was undertaken to provide more intensive medical care for the two inmates.
'We don't have a special isolation facility and paramedics to treat inmates with HIV/AIDS,' Wahyu said.
He believed there were many other inmates with HIV/AIDS in the penitentiary whose condition had not yet been detected, especially because the number of HIV/AIDS cases in the regency was relatively high.
What was challenging, according to Wahyu, was that those who were HIV positive or had AIDS did not reveal their status to prison employees, much less have their health routinely checked at a community health center.
