A man displays his face and white hands decorated with messages during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign on World AIDS Day in Chandigarh, India, December 1, 2017.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS – Awareness of the importance of inspection human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is starting to wake up. However, HIV/AIDS management in Indonesia is still hampered by gender stigma and bias.
“For early diagnosis the most effective way is to track with VL exam (viral load/the amount of virus in the blood). Most husbands will not want to take an exam if their wife invites them, but a wife will definitely want to take an exam if her husband invites her. This is a gender bias, men are still dominant over women,” said Ayu Oktariani, president of the Indonesian Positive Women Association or IPPI, in commemoration of World HIV Day on Thursday (1/12/2022). AIDS in Jakarta.
