HIV/AIDS Positive Number Rises, Kendari Women's Prison Holds Consultation And Health Tests

Kendari Women's Prison Examines HIV/AIDS Dozens of inmates, Tuesday (14/3/2023) (ANTARA)

KENDARI - The Kendari Class III Women's Correctional Institution (LPP) in collaboration with the local Health Office held HIV/AIDS consultations and examinations for dozens of inmates or inmates. This is to prevent the number of cases that have increased

Head of Kendari Women's Prison, Andi Wirdani Irawati in Kendari, Tuesday said as many as 75 inmates participated in the activity carried out by Kendari Class III Women's Prison medical officers in collaboration with the Health Office through the Lepo-Lepo Health Center in Kendari City.

"The Kendari Class III Women's Prison in collaboration with the Lepo-Lepo Health Center, and the Southeast Sulawesi HIV/AIDS Volunteers carry out further activities for HIV/AIDS counseling and examination," he said.

He said that the HIV AIDS Counseling and examination was a routine activity every three months carried out by the Kendari Women's Prison as the Technical Implementation Unit (UPT) of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) of Southeast Sulawesi.

His party is committed to providing the best service to all inmates or prisoners in the prison.

"This activity is a follow-up activity that has been carried out previously. And will continue to be carried out by the Kendari Women's Prison with a period of every three months," he said.

According to him, consultation and examination of HIV/AIDS is very important to do so that he emphasizes the inmates to follow and listen to both health consultations and examinations that will be carried out by doctors.

After the health consultation, the inmates' health samples were taken for HIV/AIDS testing. "From the results of the examination, as many as 75 inmates tested negative for HIV/AIS," he explained.

Previously, the Kendari City Health Office, Southeast Sulawesi Province found as many as 272 people in the area tested positive for HIV AIDS disease from January to November 2022.

Head of the Disease Prevention and Control Division (P2P) of Kendari Health Office Ellfi said HIV/AIDS cases in the area experienced a significant upward trend, because when compared to 2021 there were 108 cases.

He said the findings of hundreds of HIV AIDS cases in the area were dominated by male gender, which was mostly found in health service centers including findings in the field from places where transmission was considered at risk.

"So most of this is indeed found in health services. And there is something we get when we make direct visits to the field in hotspots or places that we think are at risk for the transmission of this disease," said Ellfi.