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According to the Surabaya Aids
Prevention Commission, which monitors the spread of HIV in Indonesia,
housewives in parts of Indonesia now outnumber prostitutes for new cases of
HIV.
The Bernama news outlet reports that
60 percent of new HIV cases in Bogor, West Java, are housewives, while HIV
among sex workers is leveling out.
The commission encourages all
pregnant women to get tested for HIV; however, the Jakarta Globe reports that less
than 1 in 10 consent to testing, adding that those who do test positive blame
their husbands. The commission sees husbands who travel across provinces for
work and spend long periods away from home as the top offenders.
The HIV-positive women feel that
their own communities will not support them even if they became HIV-positive by
an unfaithful husband, as Indonesia’s newspapers still tout headlines about
HIV-positive couples being run out of villages and children being expelled from
schools because they have HIV-positive fathers.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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