Menteri Kesehatan Malu pada Laporan PBB tentang HIV/AIDS
Health Minister Embarrassed with UN Report on HIV/AIDS
Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Hari Utomo
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Jakarta (B2B) - Menteri Kesehatan Nafsiah Mboi menyatakan laporan terbaru Hari AIDS Dunia 2012 yang mengungkap keberhasilan Indonesia dalam pencegahan HIV selama 10 tahun terakhir tergolong rendah, sangatlah memalukan.
"Ini (laporan benar-benar mengejutkan saya," katanya dalam lokakarya tentang HIV yang digelar Organisasi Buruh Dunia (ILO) di Jakarta, Rabu.
Laporan yang dilansir Program Gabungan PBB tentang HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) yang diterbitkan Selasa, mengungkap bahwa penderita HIV di Indonesia meningkat lebih dari 25% selama 2011-2012.
Laporan itu menyatakan bahwa program pencegahan HIV untuk komunitas gay dan pekerja seks komersial hanya mencapai kurang dari 25%, yang dianggap rendah.
Beberapa negara lain seperti Bangladesh, Filipina, Vietnam dan Srilanka memiliki catatan capaian yang sama.
"Kami telah menghabiskan jutaan dolar untuk program pencegahan HIV/AIDS, namun, tingkat keberhasilan kita masih rendah. Saya tidak tahu apa kesalahan yang kami buat," kata Nafsiah.
Sementara menyoroti pencapaian rendah Indonesia, laporan itu mencatat kisah sukses dari negara lain.
Laporan menunjukkan bahwa 25 negara berpenghasilan rendah dan menengah, lebih dari setengahnya berada di Afrika, dinyatakan berhasil mengurangi penderita baru lebih dari 50%.
Kecewa terhadap laporan tersebut, Nafsiah mengatakan, pemerintah harus bergerak maju dan tetap memberikan akses universal terhadap pencegahan, pengobatan, perawatan dan dukungan.
"Orang-orang harus belajar bagaimana bertanggung jawab dan untuk mempertahankan diri melawan HIV dengan menghindari perilaku seksual berisiko," katanya.
Jakarta (B2B) - Health Minister Nafsiah Mboy said that the newly published 2012 World AIDS Day Report, which revealed Indonesia’s low success in HIV prevention over the last 10 years, was embarrassing.
“It [the report] really shocked me,” she said during a workshop on HIV-sensitive social protection held by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Wednesday.
The report by the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) published on Tuesday, disclosed that the rate of new HIV infectios in Indonesia increased by more than 25 percent between 2001 and 2011. The report said that HIV prevention programs for the gay community and commercial sex workers only reached less than 25 percent, which was considered low
Several other countries like Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam and Sri Lanka have similarly poor records.
“We have spent million dollars of HIV/AIDS prevention programs, yet, we still have such a low success rate. I don’t know what mistakes we’ve made,” Nafsiah said.
While highlighting Indonesia’s poors achievement, the report recorded success stories from other countries.
The report showed that 25 low and middle income countries, more than half of them in Africa, had successfully reduced new HIV infection by more than 50 percent.
Disappointed with the report, Nafsiah said that the government must move forward and keep providing universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
“People must learn how to be responsible and to defend themselves against HIV by avoiding risky sexual behavior," she said.
