JAKARTA – The lifestyle of the community, especially in urban areas, is increasingly out of control. The times, like it or not, change the landscape of life. Now, people tend to live more freely, hedonism is their role model.
Hedonism itself is a term that shows understanding of pleasure or a view of world enjoyment. This understanding gives birth to various characteristics such as materialism, promiscuity, wastefulness, selfishness, and tends to be extravagant. Also, this understanding is being loved across circles. And the most vulnerable to that lifestyle are teenagers.
Especially for promiscuity, it is actually a real threat. It is not surprising that currently there are many prostitution phenomena online. This lifestyle is a little dangerous, while looking for sexual pleasure, he also gets rupiah coffers.
Now, it seems that many of the people have forgotten the dangers of promiscuity and unhealthy sexual activity, namely the threat of transmission human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Where one of the transmissions is due to sexual intercourse with multiple partners and not wearing protection.
HIV can attack a person and damage the immune system by infecting and destroying SD4 cells. The more cells that are destroyed, the weaker the immune system is, making it susceptible to disease. Untreated HIV infection can have a fatal risk, namely triggering a serious condition called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
AIDS itself is the final stage of HIV infection and is the last series in which the body or immune system is damaged and cannot fight infection. And unfortunately, to this day, a cure for HIV-AIDS has not yet been found. Those who are exposed will slowly die.
The World Health Organization (WHO) in Aids Day 2020 raised the theme “Global Solidarity, Ressilient Services”, as a form of respect for all people who dedicate themselves to providing services about HIV-AIDS.
A specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as an observer of HIV-AIDS, Ekarini Aryasatiani explained, actually the stigma of the dangers of HIV-AIDS in Indonesia still exists, but the community does not see the dangers.
So, most of them it is better to harbor the disease than to have it checked. “The transmission is not over,” said dr. Ekarini when talking with Validnews, Wednesday (2/12).
Data per 2019, the number of people living with HIV-AIDS (PLWHA) in Indonesia was 349,883 cases. The details, most infected were those aged 25–49 years at 71.1%, 20–24 years 14.4%, and over the age of 50 years as much as 9%.
According to figures from the Ministry of Health, since 2000–2018, HIV-AIDS infection has indeed decreased by 37%. Deaths also fell by 45% and as many as 13.6 million Indonesians survived because they consumed antiretrovirals (ARVs).
According to him, the decrease in the number of people living with HIV because now people who are exposed have started to be treated. Because if the person has been treated, viral loadher being undetectable or the virus is no longer detected and becomes untransmittable or at risk of transmission to others.
“It must pass through blood products into the blood. So blood is taken from a positive person and then it can be transmitted to another person. If it is normal, it is usually more or less, including in sexual relations. Therefore, now we embrace (understand) meeting positive people immediately treated. regardless of the CD4, “said Ekarini.
Even though it is decreasing, don’t let the people’s lifestyle get out of control. Given this virus is at risk of death. However, he saw that the lifestyle of the Indonesian people did tend to underestimate the dangerous virus a little. He gave an example, let alone HIV-AIDS which makes die slowly, Covid-19 which causes sudden death, people tend not to care.
“We don’t know if our society is rich or they don’t care. Especially if it dies slowly. Just as endemic hepatitis is bigger than HIV, people are not afraid,” he explained.
Now he ensures that more health workers in Indonesia understand how to handle HIV-AIDS patients. Also, government programs that carry out early detection are also increasingly being implemented. So handling can be done more quickly and reduce the risk of death.
“Because there are more patients and health workers understand more and more people are being treated, that person is becoming more familiar with HIV,” he said.
However, even though all the treatment has been done, it does not mean that the community can underestimate it. Because no matter how sophisticated the treatment is, it is certainly better not to be exposed to HIV-AIDS at all. “It really needs awareness from the public.” (Dwi Herlambang)
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