Another AIDS sufferer in Jakarta

Another AIDS sufferer in Jakarta

JAKARTA (JP): Another Jakartan has been diagnosed as suffering
from the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the director
general of the Communicable Disease Control and Environmental
Health department of the Health Ministry, Hadi Abednego said.

The patient is one of two people infected with AIDS diagnosed
recently by officials of the directorate general, Hadi said,
adding that the other patient is living in Irian Jaya.

Hadi told Antara on Friday that with the diagnosis of the new
patient, Jakarta now has 41 AIDS sufferers and 52 people tested
positive with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus, which causes AIDS.

So far there have been 280 people tested HIV positive
throughout the country but there is no data on the total number
of AIDS sufferers. (mas)