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        "msgid": "blood-testing-urged-for-indonesian-athletes-1447893297",
        "date": "1995-12-05 00:00:00",
        "title": "Blood testing urged for Indonesian athletes",
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        "summary": "Blood testing urged for Indonesian athletes JAKARTA (JP): All Indonesian athletes who don the national colors next week for the 18th Southeast Asian Games in Chiang Mai, Thailand, should be tested for HIV infection on their return home, an academic said yesterday. Dadang Hawari, a senior lecturer of the Faculty of Medicine of the University Indonesia in Jakarta suggested that the national sportsmen and women undergo one blood test for HIV upon arrival and another test 60 days later.",
        "content": "<p>Blood testing urged for Indonesian athletes<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): All Indonesian athletes who don the national<br>\ncolors next week for the 18th Southeast Asian Games in Chiang<br>\nMai, Thailand, should be tested for HIV infection on their return<br>\nhome, an academic said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Dadang Hawari, a senior lecturer of the Faculty of Medicine of<br>\nthe University Indonesia in Jakarta suggested that the national<br>\nsportsmen and women undergo one blood test for HIV upon arrival<br>\nand another test 60 days later.<\/p>\n<p>\"The tests are just a measure of alertness because of the high<br>\nprevalence of AIDS in Chiang Mai,\" Dadang said.<\/p>\n<p>Dadang was commenting on the decision of the SEA Games<br>\nOrganizing Committee to provide condoms for male athletes taking<br>\npart in the 10-day regional sports competition.<\/p>\n<p>A senior official of the National Sports Council, Mohammad<br>\nSarengat, said earlier that almost 70 percent of prostitutes in<br>\nChiang Mai were HIV-positive.<\/p>\n<p>Dadang said the second test was necessary because it can take<br>\nthe body up to 60 days to develop anti-bodies to the virus,<br>\nenabling infection to be detected.<\/p>\n<p>\"Condoms do not protect a man from the deadly virus 100<br>\npercent,\" Dadang said, as quoted by Antara. \"The sexual devices<br>\nonly reduce the risk of being infected with HIV,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>Dadang quoted a survey conducted by the World Health<br>\nOrganization as showing that condoms are only between 70 percent<br>\nand 74 percent effective in protecting the user from HIV<br>\ninfection.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Health revealed on AIDS Day last week that, as<br>\nof September, a total of 346 people in Indonesia have been<br>\ninfected with HIV, 82 of them having already contracted AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>In the world of sports, there have been only three cases of<br>\nthe virus so far: basketball legend Ervin 'Magic' Johnson,<br>\nOlympic diving gold medalist Greg Louganis and tennis great<br>\nArthur Ashe. Ashe died as a result of AIDS in February 1993.<br>\n(amd)<\/p>",
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