The spread of HIV/AIDS is like an iceberg phenomenon. Cases that do not come to the surface are bigger than those that do.
The spread of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia is increasingly troubling. The latest news is that a 12-year-old girl has been infected with HIV/AIDS from a person who had sexual intercourse with her.
Nia Kurniati, a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine in University of Indonesia who researches HIV in children, during her doctoral promotion in July estimated that in 2020 there were 540,000 cases of HIV/AIDS in Indonesia. Of that number, 3.3 percent were children below the age of 14.Nia revealed that UNAIDS in 2020 globally targeted 90 percent of people with HIV/AIDS to be aware that they have HIV/AIDS, but in fact in Indonesia it reached 66 percent.
The use of drugs through needles is also a risk of transmission, even though the use of syringes has decreased as currently drugs are consumed by drinking, smoking or inhalation. To be honest, as an academic and a clinician handling HIV cases related to gastrointestinal symptoms, the findings of hundreds of infected teenagers are quite disturbing. Education of the illness must be a continuous process. Ignorance about the mode of transmission carries a possible risk of HIV infection, of which the treatment is lifelong. People with HIV are usually asymptomatic, showing chronic symptoms after they enter the AIDS period.
Patients with HIV can also experience abnormalities in the skin in the form of black spots. They can experience convulsions when HIV has invaded the brain.
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