Prostitute at Dadap has AIDS

Prostitute at Dadap has AIDS

JAKARTA (JP): The Tangerang Health Office did blood tests on
158 prostitutes of the Dadap red-light district in June last
year. The results, which were made known in May this year, showed
that one of the prostitutes tested HIV positive.

The chairman of the Health Office, Dr. H. Djauhari, refused to
identify the 19-year-old prostitute but he confirmed that she was
still actively plying her trade as of yesterday, Kompas daily
reported.

There was no mention as to why the results of the test took a
year to be disclosed.

Health Office figures reveal that up to May this year there
were eight AIDS cases and six HIV cases found in West Java. (01)