Mostly people with HIV / AIDS is a Youth and Young Adult

World Wide Web | Mostly people with HIV / AIDS is a Youth and Young Adult | AIDS stands Acquered Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS is a disease that can not find a cure until now. The disease attacks the human immune system, making people more susceptible to disease. The disease is caused by the HIV virus. HIV stands for Human Immuno Virus. This virus attacks the CD4 lymphocyte cells in the human body that acts as the body's defense system from infection. As a result, the immune system is down and susceptible to infection. The virus is transmitted in the event of mixing body fluids containing HIV, through sexual contact with someone who has HIV, through blood transfusions and organ transplants contaminated with HIV through needle sticks or other equipment contaminated with HIV, and the removal of the pregnant women who suffer HIV to her fetus.

HIV / AIDS has spread rapidly. This disease 20 years ago was not known at all, but is currently estimated at more than 60 million people are infected and more than 21 million people die from it. On average, every day there are 14 thousand people are infected, most are adolescents between 15-24 years of age. AIDS has become the fourth largest cause of death worldwide.

Estimates nationally by the Ministry of Health in 2002 the number of people living with HIV / AIDS in Indonesia is around 90-130 thousand. However, the recorded and reported only about 6000 people since 1987. Until now in Indonesia has found many cases of HIV / AIDS whose numbers tend to increase from year to year. Most cases of HIV / AIDS in Indonesia successively found in Jakarta, Papua, East Java, West Java, Bali, North Sumatra, West Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, Riau and Riau Islands. While the age group most commonly found cases of HIV / AIDS is a young adult age group is aged 20-29 years, followed by 30-39 years in a row, 40-49 years and 15-19 years. According to the type of transmission of HIV / AIDS was found in IDUs (Intravenous Drugs Users), followed by heterosexual couples, homosexual transmission during birth, blood transfusions and others. Currently, Indonesia is no longer classified as a country with a low prevalence of infection, but it is an increase in the status of a concentrated epidemic.

The factors that led to the rapid increase of the epidemic in Indonesia is the highest among other drug use with needles that are not sterile, improvement or expansion of the sex industry serving 7-10 million customers every year and the lack of condom use by sex workers subscribers. If not immediately addressed then, HIV / AIDS will quickly negate the progress of development that has been achieved during this nation.

HIV / AIDS cases reported are just a tip of the iceberg, in which case the surface or the note is only a fraction of the truth. If we review the number of cases by age group is the most at a young age is the age of 15-49 years with the highest is 20-29 years of age. Seniors are considered age, so the increase in the number of cases will be affected economically and socially to the patient, the family and the country's economy. Productive work force died, the number of orphans increases, leading to social and health burden. The high incidence of HIV / AIDS in adolescents and young adults may be caused by their ignorance about what HIV and AIDS itself, what causes it, how it is transmitted and how to prevent them from contracting the disease. Therefore it is very important to give the right information about the disease to the public, especially teenagers to increased cases did not occur in the future and there is no generation loss in our nation. The role of government and the community through non-governmental organizations is crucial.