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Early Stages of AIDS
Early stages of AIDS
HIV infection is slowly growing so until the symptoms of the disease begin to appear. The early symptoms that can indicate that a person begins to experience AIDS is as follows:
Weight loss (greater than 10 percent of body weight)
Weak
- Chronic diarrhea is more than one month
- Chronic cough is more than one month
- Wound or rash that feels pain
- The cut on her lip that does not heal
- Fever and night sweats
- Swollen glands in the neck, armpits and groin (immediately after infection)
- Thrush (a white rash) in the mouth or genitals
- Recurrent infections in the throat and ear
- Recurrent shingles
Human Development Index and Aids Risk
HIV and AIDS can cause the Human Development Index (HDI) fell and an impact on the economy and poverty. For that, he argues the need for coordination in this issue handled jointly. “Coordinating a keyword that is very important for the prevention of HIV / AIDS, not only at the planning level, but also budgeting, implementation and administration of cases, both at central and local levels,” In addition to coordination problems, other problems in the HIV / AIDS is a matter of funding. Until now, funding is still depending on foreign aid, about 70% of prevention funds from overseas, and it has bad effects. “We put ourselves in a position of high dependence on donors. We know that this aid can be stopped at any time due to various reasons, Therefore, it is time for Indonesia to begin reducing dependence by increasing funds from domestic sources, including increasing the role of community and business world.
Development of AIDS Epidemic in Indonesia
Since 1985 until the year 1996, AIDS cases in Indonesia are still very rare mainly derived from homosexual groups. Since mid-1999 began to look sharp increase mainly due to transmission through injecting narcotics. Up to March 2005 recorded 6789 cases of HIV / AIDS. The number is expected to not show the actual figure. Department of Health in 2002 estimated the number of Indonesian people who are infected with HIV are between 90 000 to 130 000 people. Recent estimates the number of HIV infected more than 500,000 people.
Existing data indicate the conclusion that the epidemic of HIV / AIDS in Indonesia are already in advanced stages. Transmission occurs through a variety of ways, either through homosexual relations, heterosexual, injecting drug users, transfusion of blood components, up to and from an infected mother to infant birth. HIV / AIDS infections have also been informed of all classes of society, both high-risk groups and general public. If at first, most people with HIV come from the homosexual group has now been a shift where the rate of transmission is heterosexual and drug users is increasing. Some infants who contracted HIV from her mother proved to show a more advanced stage of stage of heterosexual transmission.