The Gunungkidul health office has also stepped up tips on HIV and AIDS avoidance.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, GUNUNG KIDUL – The wellness office environment of Gunungkidul district, province of the special area of Yogyakarta, presents tips and your HIV in all puskesmas in 18 sub-districts in their work regions.
“All wellbeing facilities in Gunungkidul We have been tasked with delivering early detection and therapy solutions for persons residing with HIV / AIDS, “Gunungkidul Well being Provider Main Dewi Irawaty in Gunungkidul mentioned Monday (9/5/2022).
The Gunungkidul District Wellness Office environment, he ongoing, is also energetic in conducting awareness-raising functions on HIV and AIDS prevention. HIV or Human immunodeficiency virus it is a virus that attacks the immune program so that the body’s potential to battle bacterial infections and diseases is weakened.
If HIV infection is not dealt with quickly, it will bring about AIDS or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Folks with AIDS have destroyed immune techniques, so they are incredibly inclined to sickness and can even pass the virus on to other people.
Most of the distribute and transmission of HIV takes place because of to unsafe sex and sharing of needles.
Head of Infectious Disorder and Zoonosis Avoidance and Control for Condition Avoidance and Management at Gunungkidul Wellness Place of work, Yuyun Ika Pratiwi, explained that the counseling and test Volunteering is section of the early analysis of HIV transmission.
According to him, so significantly the consumers of voluntary counseling and screening companies (Voluntary counseling and screening/ VCT) is nonetheless very low, partly simply because men and women are typically scared or ashamed about getting an test. In order to get over this issue, the Office of Health conducted a consultation to improve community being familiar with of HIV transmission prevention and AIDS administration.
“We deliver education and learning to the general public on HIV-AIDS early detection. We also keep the confidentiality of patients and inhabitants who would like to take part in the VCT,” he explained.
Given that 2006, there have been 574 instances of HIV an infection and 282 circumstances of AIDS in Gunungkidul. In detail, people today with HIV infection ended up 324 guys and 250 girls and people with AIDS were being 164 guys and 118 gals.
