Students next for AIDS test

JEMBER, East Java: Local health authorities are taking their anti-AIDS campaign to university students next, having already conducted blood tests on high-risk groups such as prostitutes.

The head of the Jember Health Office, Nur Achmat, said blood tests are being conducted to check for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which causes the fatal AIDS, Antara reported.

Nobody tested HIV positive in the campaign's first phase on 400 people in high risk groups, he said.

The test however discovered that 15 of them have gonorrhea and 11 have syphilis.

Students are next in line for the tests largely because of the increasing promiscuity among the younger generation. (emb)