Indonesia has 21,770 HIV/AIDS cases
Antara News, Saturday, October 2, 2010 16:18 WIB
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia has recorded 21,770 cases of HIV/AIDS and 4,128 deaths from April 1, 1987 to June 2010, according to the health ministry`s data.
"Every year the HIV/AIDS cases increase, as there have been more people involved among other things in unprotected sex, and sharing needles with injection drug users," Eki Komalasari, a spokesman of the East Jakarta Red Cross and HIV/AIDS Manager Program, said here Saturday.
In June 2010 alone, the country`s HIV/AIDS cases reached 1,797 cases and in 2009 3,863 cases.
Of the total HIV/AIDS patients, 16,093 were male and 5,578 were female, and 99 were unknown.
Jakarta has a total of 3,740 cases and 552 deaths, West Java 3,710 cases and 663 deaths, East Java 3,540 cases and 732 cases, Papua 2,858 cases and 373 cases, and Bali 1,747 cases and 311 cases.
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