GenPI.co Jogja – Deputy Mayor of Yogyakarta Heroe Poerwadi asked residents to be disciplined in implementing healthy living and avoiding behaviors that could potentially transmit the HIV/AIDS virus.
The Yogyakarta City Government has also intensified tuberculosis (TB) testing for PLWHA or people living with HIV/AIDS in its area.
This effort is made so that they avoid potential exposure to dangerous diseases.
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“This is an effort from the City Government to provide assistance to PLWHA,” he said, quoted from the official website of the Yogyakarta City Government, Sunday (5/12).
According to Heroe, HIV/AIDS transmission is not only caused by human behavior. But it can also be from drug use and injection needles.
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Heroe also hopes that PLWHA will have the will to check their health status.
“In order to prevent the risk of transmission to other people,” he said.
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Meanwhile, the Head of the Yogyakarta City Health Office, Emma Rahmi Aryani, said that puskesmas officers in the area were trained to screen for TB.
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