Health News Digest, 17 January 2014

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - New Haven, Conn.- A Yale study has uncovered significant gender differences in the treatment outcomes of HIV-infected jail detainees who are transitioning to life outside jail, with women faring much worse than men. The study appears online in the American Journal of Public Health.

In the United States, the HIV epidemic is highly concentrated among those in the criminal justice system. One sixth of all people living with HIV/AIDS transition through jail or prison annually. In addition, the criminal justice population has high numbers of people who experience economic or social instability, psychiatric disorders, and substance use disorders. These conditions have an adverse impact on treatment outcomes for those infected with HIV, and also interfere with HIV prevention and treatment efforts. Unlike prisons, jails house individuals who are pre-trial or have short sentences, leading to rapid turnover that is particularly destabilizing.

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the Hindu, 19 January 2014

The Centre will soon include Third Line therapy for persons living with HIV in the government's Anti-Retroviral Treatment programme.

Preliminary work has begun in this regard and the process is expected to be completed in eight to 10 months, Lov Verma, Secretary, Department of AIDS Control, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, said on Saturday.

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Kaltim Pos, 19 Januari 2014

Penderita AIDS Masih Dapat JKN

WARGA Balikpapan yang mengindap HIV/AIDS tak perlu takut berobat. Pengobatan terhadap orang dengan HIV/AIDS (ODHA) dijamin program Jaminan Kesehatan melalui Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial (BPJS). Kepala Dinas Kesehatan Kota (DKK) Balikpapan Dyah Muryani menegaskan seluruh pengobatan mulai pemeriksaan di dokter praktik, klinik maupun rumah sakit, termasuk perawatan hingga obat digratiskan kepada ODHA.

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Lensa Indonesia, 16 Januari 2014

LENSAINDONESIA.COM: Penderita HIV/AIDS di Badan Koordinator Wilayah (Bakorwil) Madiun, terus peningkatan setiap tahunnya. Hingga akhir tahun 2013, jumlahnya mencapai 717 orang.

Jumlah tersebut berasal dari Klinik Voulentary Conseling Test (VCT) Rumah Sakit Umum Provinsi (RSUP) dr. Soedono Madiun, sepanjang tahun 2013 saja, ada 187 penderita HIV/Aids baru.

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Oke Zone, 16 Januari 2014

NEW YORK - Sekretaris Jenderal (Sekjen) Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa (PBB) Ban Ki Moon mengecam undang-undang anti-gay Nigeria. UU tersebut dapat menyulut kekerasan dan menghalangi upaya pencegahan HIV/AIDS di Nigeria.

"Sekjen mencemaskan UU (anti-gay) akan memunculkan kekerasan dan prasangka, bahwa kepolisian Nigeria telah menangkap sejumlah orang yang diduga gay," ujar pernyataan resmi kantor Sekjen PBB, seperti dikutip dari Reuters, Kamis (16/1/2014).

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