Background: Predicted in 2015 there was an increase of 924.000 cases with a prevalence of 0.49%, and rose sharply to 2.117 million cases in 2025 with a prevalence of 1.00%. This surge can be prevented to less than half that when the target of universal access can be achieved by 2014. For prevention, FJPA using Facebook as a medium of information delivery. This effort shows remarkable progress.…
Backgrounds: One of the phases that have a high vulnerability to HIV-AIDS is adolescence, a period which has the highest social mobility than at any other age. In recent years there is a trend of increased cases of HIV-AIDS, especially in groups of teenagers who are of reproductive age. Social penalties for people with HIV-AIDS, are generally more severe when compared with patients with other d…
Backgrounds: AIDS claimed to have caused death as much as 2.4 to 3.3 million in 2005, and more than 570,000 people of whom are children. One of the phases that have a high vulnerability to HIV/AIDS is adolescence, a period which has the highest social mobility than at any other age. Methods: This study aims to analyze the relationship of knowledge of behavior modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS w…
Human Immunodeficiency Virus is retrovirus that can decrease immune system in human body. There are two types of HIV which could be genetically specified as HIV-I and HIV-2. HIV-I consists of three groups: M, N, and 0. The 'M' group is further classified as nine subtypes i. e, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and I subtypes. In certain condition, two viruses from different subtypes can mix and form a hy…
Background: The quantitative assays are important tests in the management of patients with HIV-1/AIDS. The important step in developing the assay is the availability of the standard HIV-1 RNA. For this purpose, we optimized in vitro HIV-1 RNA transcription to produce the standard HIV-1 RNA. Methods: The HIV-1 DNA was amplified from pNL43 by PCR using a primer pair that was specific for conse…
Background: Commercial sex workers is one of high risk group in spreading of HIV/AIDS. In Langkat District, till October 2007 there were 7 cases AIDS reported from prostitutes. Objectives: The purpose of the study was to analyze the influence of their predisposing factors (knowledge and attitude), enabling factors (complexity of condom, availability of condom, customer's comfort) and reinforci…
HIV/AIDS, with new cases there of coming up year after year, is a fast , is a fast-growing disease. In order to inhibit HIV replication, ARV is administered to HIV/AIDS patients throughout his life-time. Continous monitoring for thhe detection of its desired result to be conducted. This study is aimed to find out the respone of ARV therapy undergone by the HIV/AIDS patients hospitalized in a te…