Medan Bisnis, 28 Oktober 2014

MedanBisnis - Medan. Tingginya wanita Pekerja seksual (WPS) di Kota Medan yang bisa terinfeksi virus HIV/AIDS, membuat Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat (LSM) PeremPuan Peduli Pedia Medan (P3M)&nbsP; mendamPingi dan melindungi Para Pekerja seks itu.

P3M melihat pekerjaan yang ditekuni oleh ratusan mungkin ribuan WPS di Medan, yang masih belum terjangkau ini, pastinya rentan terinfeksi virus HIV/AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency). Saat ini, LSM P3M telah mendampingi 800 WPS di mana 9 diantaranya terinfeksi virus HIV/AIDS. Dari 9 ini, ada 5 orang yang masih menjaga komunikasi yang baik dengan P3M, selebihnya hilang komunikasi.

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Oke Zone, 28 Oktober 2014

JAKARTA - Banyak remaja Indonesia belum memahami masalah HIV dan penyakit AIDS secara komprehensif. Pengetahuan mereka tentang penyakit dan kekerasan seksual juga masih minim.

Penelitian dan Pengembangan (Litbang) Yayasan Aliansi Remaja Independen (ARI), Ryan Fajar Febrianto,

menjelaskan, data UNICEF pada 2012 menunjukkan, hanya 11,4 persen remaja yang memahami HIV & AIDS secara komprehensif, meningkat 20,6 persen di tahun sebelumnya. Ini merupakan hasil riset Kementerian Kesehatan (Kemenkes) di lima provinsi pada 2010, terhadap remaja berusia 15-24 tahun.

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Merdeka.Com, 27 Oktober 2014

Merdeka.com - Sembilan wanita hamil di Kabupaten Merauke, Papua, diketahui terindikasi mengidap HIV/AIDS. Penyakit yang hingga kini belum ada obatnya tersebut, menurut Sekretaris KPA Kabupaten Merauke, Heni Astuti Suparman, di Merauke sudah mencapai 40 perempuan dari data Januari hingga September 2014.

"Komisi Penanggulangan HIV/AIDS (KPA) Kabupaten Merauke mencatat data Januari-September 2014 sebanyak 40 perempuan di daerah itu positif HIV/AIDS," kata Heni seperti dikutip dari Antara, Senin (27/10).

Dia mengatakan bahwa dari total 40 perempuan di Kabupaten Merauke yang tercatat mengidap HIV/AIDS, sebanyak sembilan orang di antaranya ibu hamil.

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BD Live, 27 October 2014

LEADING HIV/AIDS researcher Quarraisha Abdool Karim gives only the briefest of answers when questioned on her personal life, but speaks easily and passionately when probed on women and AIDS, the field to which she has dedicated her career. "We can celebrate the fact that we have the largest treatment programme in the world, but we are reaching less than 50% of those who need it. People are unable to overcome stigma and discrimination, whether real or perceived, and are still choosing death over life," says Prof Abdool Karim, who is one of the world's leading HIV/AIDS epidemiologists.

She is associate scientific director of the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in Africa at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and professor of epidemiology at Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in the US.

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the Citizen, 27 October 2014

Many achievements have been made in fighting HIV/Aids but the country cannot claim success, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.

"South Africa, with the highest number of people living with HIV/Aids, has rolled out the biggest treatment programme in the world," he told reporters at a briefing in Johannesburg on the 2016 International Aids Conference.

"[However] we are still concerned about the stubbornly high numbers of new infections."

Ramaphosa said the stigma around HIV/Aids continued to undermine treatment programmes.

The 2016 conference will be held in Durban. This is the second time South Africa hosts the conference. It was last held in the country in 2000.

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