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Living With HIV/AIDS In A Muslim Community: An Ethnographic Study In Bandung, Indonesia
Kusman Ibrahim, Praneed Songwathana, Umaporn Boonyasopun
Universitas Padjadjaran, Manuscript was presented in The 3rd International Nursing Conference & Workshop 2009, Internationalization of Nursing Education: Challenging future for nursing services, 21-22 October 2009, Faculty of Nursing, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Universitas Padjadjaran, Manuscript was presented in The 3rd International Nursing Conference & Workshop 2009, Internationalization of Nursing Education: Challenging future for nursing services, 21-22 October 2009, Faculty of Nursing, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
HIV/AIDS
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has reached pandemic proportions affecting millions of people men, women, and children around the world. There were an estimated 33.2 million people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and AIDS in 2007 worldwide, and most of them live in developing countries. Every day, over 6,800 people become infected and over 5,700 people die from AIDS due to inadequate access to prevention, care, and treatment services. HIV remains the most serious infectious disease with regard to public health (UNAIDS & WHO, 2007). The HIV pandemic is still a major problem and poses continual challenges to every country, regardless regions and/or cultural beliefs (Fauci, 1999). Indonesia is a developing country which a predominantly Muslim. Population has been facing increasing numbers of PLWH since the first case was identified in 1987. The country is known as having the fastest growing HIV epidemic in Asia (UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO, & ADB, 2008). The estimated number of PLWH was reported in 2001 as 93,000 and has since increased to 270,000 at the end of 2007 (WHO, UNAIDS, & UNICEF, 2008). Unless prevention programs are effective, it is predicted that the prevalence of HIV would reach 500,000 by the end of 2010 (MoH, 2006) and 1 million by 2015 (AusAID, 2006). Bandung has the highest number of reported HIV/AIDS cases (MoH, 2009). The city with its 2.5 million inhabitants is located about 180 km southeast of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. HIV/AIDS reported in Bandung is predominantly found among injecting drug users rather than in other risk groups (Bandung AIDS Control Commission., 2007).