Antara News, 28 Mei 2014

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Sukabumi (ANTARA News) - Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat peduli HIV/AIDS, Jaringan Aksi Perubahan Indonesia, mencatat jumlah warga Sukabumi di kota dan kabupaten yang terjangkit penyakit ini mencapai 1.067 jiwa.

"Jumlah tersebut merupakan dan pengidap HIV/AIDS, untuk di Kota Sukabumi sebanyak 760 jiwa dan Kabupaten Sukabumi sebanyak 307 jiwa," kata Koordinator JAPI, Sukabumi Nurul Anzalta, kepada ANTARA, Selasa.

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Edgeonthenet, 27 May 2014

Volunteer Shane Werle has a long history of working with Habitat for Humanity in the U.S. and Haiti. Early this year, he traveled to Malawi in Africa, to build brick homes for some of the country's many children orphaned due to HIV. He returned with a passion for giving back to the community, and a mission to bring more volunteers with him.

EDGE looks at his journey through Africa in a three-part series. In Part 1, he talked about his early work volunteering, and how it brought him to Malawi. This week, he talks about meeting the rest of his team and building the homes:

Habitat for Humanity is building homes in Malawi for families that have taken in orphaned children. If I can't cure HIV and/or give every infected African medical treatment, I could at least provide a safe, sound and secure structure for orphaned children to live. I decided that Malawi would be my next destination.

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JPNN, 27 Mei 2014

TANJUNG SELOR – Sejumlah prajurit TNI dari Batalyon Infanteri 613 Raja Alam yang bertugas di Tanjung Selor, Kabupaten Bulungan, bersiap berangkat ke Papua. Mereka akan menjalani tugas baru dalam Operasi Pamtas RI di Merauke.

Sebelum bertolak ke Papua, petugas dari Dinas Kesehatan Kabupaten Bulungan diminta membekali para prajurit TNI itu tentang HIV AIDS. Pembekalan ini sekaligus warning bagi prajurit TNI, mengingat penderita AIDS terbanyak di Indonesia terletak di Papua.

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Tribun News, 26 Mei 2014

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, ENREKANG -- Lembaga Pemantau Independen (LPI) Enrekang, menyebutkan jika pengidap penyakit mematikan HIV AIDS, di Bumi Maserrempulu, terus bertambah, tiap tahunnya.

Hal tersebut diungkapkan oleh ketua LPI Enrekang, Rahmat Lamada, saat dikonfirmasi melalui telepon selularnya, Senin (26/5/2014).

Iapun mengaku sangat prihatin dengan hal tersebut. Ia juga berharap agar pemerintah Kabupaten Enrekang, tidak berpangku tangan dengan kejadian tersebut.

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Dawn.Com, 25 May 2014

OF the numerous health crises affecting Pakistan, tackling the spread of HIV/AIDS seems to have been relegated to secondary status as compared to other daunting health challenges, such as polio and measles. However, as figures indicate, the state and society cannot afford to ignore HIV, especially when medical experts have described the surge in AIDS cases as a "concentrated epidemic".

As reported in this paper, according to the Sindh AIDS Control Programme, there has been a 300pc increase in HIV/AIDS cases over the past five years in the province. One expert quoted in the report says there has been a "continuous rise" in HIV/AIDS cases since 1996. UNAIDS offers a similar view for the nation as a whole; according to the UN programme there has been an "eight-fold" increase in new HIV infections between 2001 and 2012.

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