Two Bitung residents HIV positive

Two Bitung residents HIV positive

BITUNG, North Sulawesi: The Bitung health ministry office has
detected two women in the city who have been infected by Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

"The two women tested positive for HIV at the general hospital
in the city," Dirk Lengkong, chief of the local health office,
said here on Saturday.

Dirk, who declined to identify the two local people, asked
people working in hotels, to be alert to the possible spread of
HIV in the regency and called for the use of condoms if they had
sex with prostitutes.

He said Bitung was prone to HIV and AIDS because the Bitung
seaport was frequently visited by foreign ships. --Antara