Sindo News, 24 Oktober 2014

DENPASAR - Wakil Gubernur Bali Ketut Sudikerta, selaku Ketua Harian Komisi Penanggulangan AIDS di Bali memaparkan bahwa Pemprov Bali tahun 2014 mengucurkan dana Rp6 miliar untuk penanggulangan HIV/AIDS di Bali.

Dana tersebut meningkat dari sebelumnya yang hanya Rp300 sampai Rp500 juta pertahunnya mengingat bahaya HIV/ AIDS semakin meresahkan warga.

Selain itu upaya penanggulangan yang bersifat preventif, seperti penyuluhan dan sosialisasi bagi generasi muda dan masyarakat umum, Pemprov Bali juga gencar melakukan pencegahan dengan cara lain.

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Kompas, 24 Oktober 2014

UNGARAN, KOMPAS.com — Perkumpulan Keluarga Berencana Indonesia (PKBI) Kabupaten Semarang menyebutkan, ada 20 orang yang ditemukan positif HIV/AIDS selama bulan Oktober. Empat orang di antaranya adalah sepasang suami istri tokoh masyarakat dan pasangan tokoh agama.

"Akumulasi bulan Oktober sampai tanggal ini 24 ini, capaiannya sudah 20 orang yang positif. Menariknya, ada dua tokoh agama dan tokoh masyarakat yang terkena. Saat ini masih dirawat di rumah sakit," ungkap Koordinator Wilayah PKBI Kabupaten Semarang, Muhamad Pujisantoso, Kamis (24/10/2014) siang.

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Jamaica Observer, 22 October 2014

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - An estimated 22,085 people in Trinidad and Tobago are living with HIV, according to UNAIDS Strategic Intervention Adviser Dr Miriam Chipimo.

The number of new cases has also increased in recent years which is quite alarming, Chipimo said.

Chipimo was speaking at a breakfast meeting yesterday (Monday) at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre, Port of Spain.

The meeting was an initiative of the Ministry of Labour and Small and Micro Enterprise Development held in collaboration with the National Trade Union Centre (NATUC) and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).

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Daily Times, 23 October 2014

Men and women are vulnerable in different ways, leading to differential rates of susceptibility to infection, access to information and available services for prevention and management of illnesses specific to women, girls and transgender individuals

Global literature and research shows that the relationship between violence against women and HIV risk is undeniable, complex and involves multiple pathways. Violence against women places women at an increased risk of HIV both through direct risk of infection and through creating an environment in which women are unable to adequately protect themselves from HIV. Yet even in settings with a high prevalence of HIV, the low risk of HIV transmission from a single sexual act, even with accompanying injury, makes it unlikely that rape outside the context of an intimate partnership results in a substantial population-level proportion of HIV cases. While providing HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for rape survivors is, without question, an important human rights issue, from a population perspective, the primary burden of HIV risk from violence against and gender inequality arises through longer-acting indirect risk pathways. The first of these involves chronically abusive relationships where women are repeatedly exposed to the same perpetrator.

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Fajar Online, 23 Oktober 2014

FAJARONLINE – Balai Besar Kesehatan Paru Masyarakat (BBKPM) Sulsel mencatat, sebanyak 36 penderita tuberclosis (TB) merupakan penderita HIV/AIDS. Rincian data kasus TB komplikasi HIV di Sulsel pada Januari-Agustus 2014 sudah mencapai 25 orang. Angka itu didapatkan dari orang HIV/AIDS (ODHA) 1.365 yang dites. Sementara khusus Makassar, dari 779 ODHA yang dites ditemukan 11 pasien TB-HIV.

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