Many teenager AIDS/HIV victims

Many teenager AIDS/HIV victims

SEMARANG, Central Java: A health official says that 15 percent
of Indonesia's 390 people suffering from Human Immunodeficiency
Virus (HIV) already have full-blown Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome (AIDS) are teenagers.

Antara quoted Dr. Nardho Gunawan, head of the Ministry of
Health's Directorate of Community Health as saying yesterday that
there was no cause for alarm yet, but that more effort to prevent
the spread of AIDS among young people is needed.

He blamed the growing promiscuity among urbanites for the
spread of the disease. "Teenagers should be taught about safe
sex," he said. "We need the support of the authorities for this
campaign to go from urban centers to rural areas."