Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a disorder of recurrent vascular thrombosis, pregnancy losses and thrombocytopenia associated with persistently elevated levels of antiphospholipid antibodies (APA). Many patients with APS have clinical and laboratory features found in other autoimmune diseases, particulary SLE. Such patients should be defined as having a 'secondary' APS to distinguish them fr…
Since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the USA in 1981 and in Indonesia in 1987, millions of people throughout the world have been contracting this threateningly fatal disease. This report discusses and higlights the current problems and the future impacts of the disease in Indonesia. Data were collected from the Sub-Directorate STDs Control of the Directorate of Communicable Diseases C…
In the Indonesia Demographic Health Survey 1994 cover married women age 15-49 years were asked whether they have heard of AIDS and if so their sources of information concerning prevention and treatment of the disease, and their personal perception about the risk of getting the disease. Half of the women age 20-34 years have ever heard about AIDS and among the older women less than half of them …
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been discussed widely and extensively because of its severity and to date not a single drug has been reported to be effective for this disease. In Asia approximate 90 percent of the cause are adult and almost half of them are female. According to WHO estimation, up to mid-1995 there are 20 million cases of HIV as Africa, Asia and South America and t…