Overview - Fighting HIV/AIDS
The HIV epidemic in Indonesia is one of the fastest growing in Asia. While it is driven primarily by intravenous drug users and commercial sex workers, HIV is increasingly reaching their partners as well. What was once an epidemic centered in Jakarta, Bali and West Java has now spread to nearly all of Indonesia’s 33 provinces. A majority of HIV-positive Indonesians were infected in their youth, which is not surprising given that a large proportion of intravenous drug users and sex workers are young people below the age of 24. Each day in Indonesia, an estimated seven children (between the ages of 0-18 years) are newly infected with HIV. Every hour, a young person between 15-24 years of age becomes newly infected. Meanwhile, knowledge about HIV remains worryingly low. The Indonesian Government and its partners have increased interventions among the most-at-risk populations (injecting drugs users, sex workers and transsexuals). However, coverage remains below 50% - insufficient to reverse the epidemic. While awareness of HIV among young people is increasing, accurate knowledge is limited. In addition, access to voluntary counseling and testing, and access to, and availability of, antiretroviral drugs (ARV) remains very scarce. Similarly, services geared at preventing HIV transmission from mother to child have yet to reach women of reproductive age who are most at risk. Meanwhile, access to family planning services, reproductive health counseling, voluntary testing and pediatric HIV are still sorely lacking in most parts of the country. (Read about UNICEF's response for Fighting HIV/AIDS in Indonesia)
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