Sabtu, 05 Desember 2009

Indonesia HIV Prevention Programs

Currently it's time for efforts to improve HIV prevention programs are comprehensive AIDS that could affect actual and optimal in the HIV-AIDS in Indonesia, including the involvement of the role of health professional organizations, such as IDI (Ikatan Dokter Indonesia) in the response to HIV / AIDS in national.

In addition to the acceleration of the HIV epidemic, Indonesia is also facing the problem of the epidemic use of drugs (drugs and addictive substances), which is still a major contribution to HIV transmission, besides an increase in transmission of blood-borne viruses, such as the transmission of viral hepatitis B and C, and HIV.

Expansion of transmission increasingly complex because of sexual transmission can not be stopped, due to low condom use in risky sex.

The impact of HIV-AIDS epidemic is not easily addressed, the problem of co-infection in people infected with HIV. HIV problems with HCV, HBV, TB and other infectious diseases to encourage more comprehensive handling. Coinfection not only can aggravate the health status of people with HIV, HIV itself also accelerate the adverse circumstances other infections.

In general, the health professional workers in Indonesia was not ready to deal with the problem of the HIV epidemic coinfection, so needed advocacy for medical curriculum development and continuing medical training (Continuing Professional Development) that can increase competence in Indonesia doctors identify and treat HIV with another pathogen.

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