BANDUNG – The Working Group for the Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mother to Child (PPIA) Bandung has also spoken out in response to the phenomenon of children contracting HIV from their mothers because they are positive.
PPIA Bandung chairman Nova Dianthy said various efforts had been made to find the number of missing cases. One of them is through the pentahelix collaboration.
“This means that this is our joint homework,” said Nova at the PPIA Seminar Towards Golden Indonesia in 2045 at the Graha Binangkit Building, Saturday 4 March 2023.
According to Nova, education and treatment so that all parties can be involved in suppressing cases of children contracting HIV from their mothers need to be carried out even more massively in the field.
“The problem of having children infected with HIV from their mothers is because their mothers are lost to follow-up. The mother did not have HIV checked during pregnancy,” said the Head of PPIA Bandung.
Therefore, this seminar is intended for midwifery students and midwives so that in the future they can inform about HIV/AIDS prevention from mother to child.
“There were 122 participants from universities, Stikes, Poltekkes majoring in midwifery and general midwives,” he said.
Chairman of the Community Empowerment Working Group for the Bandung AIDS Commission (KPA), Yunimar said, of the 5,843 known cases of HIV/AIDS, 11.11 percent were housewives.
“This is our homework so that these mothers want to have themselves checked. In fact, in Bandung there are also children who are infected with HIV and are also stunted because their mothers don’t want to be examined and take medication,” said Yunimar.
So, Yunimar hopes that pregnant women who are HIV/AIDS survivors will at least want to take antiretroviral drugs (ARV). He got the facts, the mother did not want to take medicine so that her child was infected.
“The most important thing is that pregnant women with HIV want to take medicine so that their babies are not infected. This is an issue that we must continue to inform the public about,” said Yunimar.
He added that one of the efforts that could be made was to provide referrals from midwives to pregnant women to offer HIV tests.
“We want the golden generation of 2045 to be free from stunting and HIV. We also continue to work to reduce the stunting rate in Bandung to 14 percent,” said Yunimar.
