JawaPos.com– Tangerang District Health Bureau (Dinkes) reports, from January to November 2022, 522 residents were recorded as suffering from active infectious diseases of HIV/AIDS.
“522 cases were recorded from January to November,” said Tangerang District Health Bureau Disease Prevention and Control Chief Sumihar Sihaloho, as quoted by Between in Tangerang.
He said, of the 522 cases, 372 people were living with HIV and 150 people with AIDS. They are scattered in different areas of Tangerang Regency.
“There are from different areas of Tangerang regency and there are also case findings from outside Tangerang area,” Sumihar Sihaloho said.
According to him, HIV/AIDS patients who are currently entering health service data this year have seen an increase over the previous year’s cases. In 2021, he noted there were 414 cases with 264 HIV cases and 150 AIDS cases.
“It’s just that last year there was a Covid-19 pandemic, there were restrictions on activities so that the tracking of HIV/AIDS cases didn’t work optimally,” said Sumihar Sihaloho.
He explained, for HIV/AIDS patients in general, the greatest number of sufferers was experienced by the male group of productive ages between 25 and 49, with a total of 284 people. For the group of women with an average productive age suffering from infectious diseases, there were 79 people.
In addition, there were 18 men aged 15-19, two women aged 15-19. 30 men aged <50 years, 10 women aged <50 years.
“For the sick from the young children group, most of them were infected from their mother placenta or mother’s milk. Therefore, pregnant women are obliged selection and an HIV test was done by examination triple elimination for prevention and mother-to-child transmission,” explained Sumihar Sihaloho.
However, according to him, with the large number of HIV/AIDS patients, the Tangerang regency government continues to make efforts to suppress and control it by socializing HIV prevention, intervention, stigma and discrimination.
“Go ahead, do it selection regularly in at-risk population groups, collaborating with cross-sectoral, advocacy and awareness-raising communities in HIV prevention,” said Sumihar Sihaloho.
Publisher: Latu Ratri Mubyarsah
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