TribunNews, 17 April 2014

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, YOGYA - Jumlah penderita HIV/AIDS di Kota Yogyakarta semakin meningkat dari tahun ke tahun. Data Komisi Penanggulangan AIDS (KPA) Kota Yogyakarta menyebut sejak 2004 hingga 2013 ditemukan 677 kasus HIV/AIDS di Kota Gudeg.

Ironisnya tiga tahun terakhir, tren temuan kasus yang ada semakin meningkat jumlahnya. KPA menyebut 2011 terdapat 55 temuan kasus HIV/AIDS, 2012 sebanyak 81 kasus dan pada 2013 jumlahnya meningkat mencapai 111 kasus.

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Liputan6, 15 April 2014

Liputan6.com, Kayuagung Kafe remang-remang di Bumi Bende Seguguk Ogan Komering Ilir (OKI) mungkin menjadi lahan subur penularan penyakit mematikan HIV/AIDS. Namun, kafe yang menyediakan Pekerja Seks Komersil (PSK) di Jalan Lintas Timur (Jalintim) OKI Sumatera Selatan (Sumsel) itu masih diminati warga. Bahkan, jumlah warung remang-remang kian menjamur.

Berdasarkan data dari Dinas Kesehatan Kabupaten OKI Sumsel, sejak tahun 2010-2013, terdata sebanyak 74 orang warga di Kabupaten OKI yang terjangkit HIV/AIDS. Jumlah tersebut menyebabkan OKI termasuk daerah yang ditemukan pengidap HIV terbanyak setelah Kota Palembang dan beberapa kabupaten/kota lainnya. Salah satunya disebabkan oleh keberadaan kafe-kafe pinggiran yang berada di beberapa titik Jalintim OKI.

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Morung Express News, 13 April 2014

Dimapur, April 13 (MExN): Medical officer in-charge of Anti Retroviral Therapy Centre, Dimapur Dr. Hutoka Sema has disclosed that according to Sentinel Surveillance Report 2014, Nagaland has become the state with highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the country with an alarming ratio of 0.88%. Country's figure stands at 0.37%.

According to a press release, Dr. Hutoka said this while presenting a lecture on "basic of HIV/AIDS & treatment facilities available" at an advocacy programme on HIV/AIDS for Kuhuboto and Khaghaboto areas at Kuhuboto town on April 12. The advocacy programme was organized by Western Sumi Totimi Hoho and sponsored by Legislators Forum of AIDS. The medical officer said youth are more vulnerable to the virus. He also gave more input on the purpose of ART.

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Morung Express News, 14 April 2014

The increasing cases of HIV/AIDS in Nagaland are particularly based on intravenous drug use and unsafe sex, informs a study published in the International Research Journal of Medical Science. The study titled 'Assessment of HIV/AIDS Sero Positivity in Nagaland' states that the prevalence of infection among IDUs has been a cause of major concern.

It further notes that instances of HIV cases has been gradually increasing among "vulnerable" population groups, including women, young people, high risk groups and bridge populations. It added that young people within the age group of 20-29 are contributing the highest number of HIV/AIDS patients in Nagaland state. In this age bracket, the report informed that the highest mode of transmission is through the sexual route. It further stated that the incidence of HIV/AIDS infection among STD clinic attendees and ante natal (transmission from mother to child) cases in "rural" Nagaland have also been increasing, thereby posing a major challenge for health managers. It said that rising numbers of pregnant women, "whose sexual behavior is not believed to be risky," are testing to be HIV positive.

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UCLANewsroom, 14 April 2014

Communities in Africa and Thailand that worked together on HIV-prevention efforts saw not only a rise in HIV screening but a drop in new infections, according to a new study in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet Global Health.

The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health's Project Accept — a trial conducted by the HIV Prevention Trials Network to test a combination of social, behavioral and structural HIV-prevention interventions — demonstrated that a series of community efforts boosted the number of people tested for HIV and resulted in a 14 percent reduction in new HIV infections, compared with control communities.

Much of the research was conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, which has particularly high rates of HIV. The researchers were interested not just in how the clinical trial participants' behavior changed, but also in how these efforts affected the community as a whole, said Thomas Coates, Project Accept's overall principal investigator and director of UCLA's Center for World Health.

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