Only 10 HIV-positive in Indramayu

Only 10 HIV-positive in Indramayu

INDRAMAYU, West Java: Indramayu health office said Monday that only 10 people had been tested HIV positive in the area so far despite its notorious reputation as the country's biggest sex worker supplier.

Health office head Dadang Supriadi said that the absence of the Elisa test or other blood tests for HIV (such as the Western Blot) in the regency has made it difficult to track the spread of HIV/AIDS in the region.

Currently, the office sends blood samples to Bandung and gets the results within two weeks.

Dadang predicted that HIV prevalence in the regency was high, given the fact that the number of sex workers in Indramayu was quite large and their mobility was very high.

"Ideally, we should prevent the HIV positive people from having sex with others. If they are commercial sex workers, they should leave their profession but the problem is, who can guarantee that they did not have sexual contact with other people?", Dadang said. --Antara