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HEALTH - People with HIV / AIDS (PLWHA) susceptible of contracting tuberculosis (TB). Data from management agencies HIV / AIDS Regional General Hospital (Hospital) Abdul Muluk mention until November there are 7366 people who took an HIV test, the results are 297 new HIV carriers.
"This year we conduct an examination of 766 PLHIV and the results were 42 people exposed to TB," said business HIV / AIDS Lampung Otta Karla Nur on Thursday (01/12/2016).
He explained that the low immunity can cause a person prone to TB. Therefore, people living with HIV including the group most affected.
"For the people living with HIV in Lampung are obliged to follow Tuberculosis screening once a month," said Otta.
The officer will ask the question whether patients with cough, sweating at night, weight loss and are there any enlargement of the gland.
"If one of the indications that we ask it there, we'll be enforcing the diagnosis of TB," he said again.
Commemorating World AIDS Day, the HIV / AIDS activist urge people to not alienate people living with HIV, to prevent the spread more widely. If people accept people living with HIV, the expected behavior of people living with HIV better. Thus, the spread of HIV / AIDS can be prevented.
According to Otta, for identifying and controlling HIV / AIDS among key populations more easily, than the population of the bridge.
"But our difficulty to identify the population of the bridge (the sex). They are no containers allows us to ask for information," he said.
This bridge population groups which he ought to watch out, because most of the housewives have become victims.
Including HIV cases in Lampung, 800 PLWHA active health check 40 percent are housewives who contracted the disease from her husband.
