BANGKAPOS.COM, BANGKA – Cases of HIV/AIDS that occurred in Pangkal Pinang city it is still very high.
AIDS Commission ( KPA extension) Pangkal Pinang city continue to fight to suppress HIV / AIDS disease does not continue to spread and increase.
Head of the HIV/Aids program KPA extension Pangkal Pinang cityYossi said he suffers from the disease HIV/AIDS in Pangkalpinang it is more dominant in men who have sex with men (MSM) or same-sex relationships.
However, Yossi was reluctant to disclose the amount HIV case/ AIDS has arrived Pangkal Pinang city.
“Right now, the high cases are due to the dominance of MSM. In fact, friends in the community have started to become aware of their concern about the dangers of HIV,” she said.
For the places which are most hotbeds for HIV/AIDS patients, most are in locating places like Teluk Bayur and Paritenam for treatment. Pangkal Pinang city.
But not only in localization places, the spread of this disease is now starting to spread along with the development of technology and information.
“For high-risk testing, including LGBT, we test once every three months, if it is general it is every six months because the risk is lower. If Pangkalpinang is because the Covid peak closed yesterday, now it’s like an iceberg, so it’s suddenly rising to the top,” she explained.
Meanwhile Yossi said his party also continues to provide care and education to HIV/Aids patients so they can return to a healthy life.
“Educate them so that they don’t discriminate against each other, because they themselves have never opened up, they never knew about their health problems and that’s what brings them down,” she said.
I don’t want to take medicine
AIDS Commission ( KPA extension) Pangkal Pinang city encounter difficulties in overcoming HIV case/AIDS in Pangkal Pinang.
The constraints that occur are not due to the availability of the drug, but rather the constraints of the patient HIV/AIDS yes.
Yossi said the infected patient HIV/AIDS does not want to finish taking the given medicine.
Even if the medicine given to the patient HIV/AIDS It’s free.
“The medicine is free, so we are also trying to make sure they don’t stop taking the medicine. If the medicine is free, but according to the SOP, for example, administrative registration is paid, but the medicine is free,” Yossi said.
Antiretroviral drugs are known to be part of HIV/AIDS treatment that can reduce the risk of transmission, inhibit the spread, and improve the quality of life of HIV sufferers.
“Most of our prevention is education, especially since cases in hospitals taking antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are already quite high. If we try to reduce the HIV rate, we don’t make AIDS appear, but some of these patients don’t complete their meds,” Yossi said.
(Bangkapos.com/Rizky Irianda Pahlevy/Hendra).
