BANDUNG, iNews.id – Until June 2021, there were 51,553 people in West Java suffer from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This finding is higher than the input indicator for the 2020-2024 National Action Plan (RAN) for 2021 at 69 percent.
Chairperson of the AIDS Commission West Java province Setiawan Wangsaatmaja said the findings of 80 percent of HIV cases from the national estimate showed that the iceberg phenomenon had been uncovered. So that West Java has entered the control stage of the HIV prevention process.
“From 2020 to November 2021, tracking has been carried out and 2,080 people with HIV have dropped out of their drugs. Data on AIDS cases (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) were found until June 2021 as many as 11,722, an increase of 18 percent from the number of AIDS cases in 2019,” said the Daily Chair of the West Java AIDs Management Commission in an official statement, Tuesday (30/11/2021).
According to Setiawan Wangsaatmaja, the small increase in HIV cases was only 18 percent. This shows that case finding of people with HIV (PLWHIV) can be found earlier.
Editor: And Warsudi
