AIDS campaign targets drivers

AIDS campaign targets drivers

CIREBON, West Java: Local heath officials have started an
information campaign on AIDS for truck drivers.

Twenty-six truck drivers took part in a one-day course held in
cooperation with the Jakarta-based University of Indonesia
yesterday.

Officials said that truck drivers were highly susceptible to
the incurable disease because they often visited brothels during
their long journeys, which often kept them away from home for
several days.

Chief of the local branch of the land transport organization,
Organda, Iskandar A.B., told Antara that the 26 drivers were
expected to pass the information on to their colleagues.

Cirebon, which borders Central Java, does not have any
recorded AIDS cases but is considered vulnerable to the spread of
the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. (pan)