500 pregnant women in Bali infected by HIV/AIDS every year

Jakarta : Indonesia | Sep 01, 2012 at 9:44 AM PDT

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500 pregnant women in Bali infected by HIV/AIDS every year

Denpasar (ANTARA News) - Bali`s Aids Controlling Commission (KPA) said around 500 pregnant women in Bali carry HIV/AIDs every year.

A Commission chairman Prof I Dewa Nyoman Wirawan said here on Saturday a survey showed that 1 percent of around 50,000 pregnant women every year in Bali are infected by HIV/AIDs .

Dewa Nyoman blamed husbands who have the tendency to change sexual partners for the transmission of the deadly disease to their wives at home.

The transmission of the disease did not stop at the wives but the babies in their wombs would also be infected, he said.

The possibility of the fetus being infected by the diseases from and infected mother is high, he said.

He said around 50 percent of fetuses in the wombs of pregnant carrying HIV/AIDs would be infected by the disease.

This means around 250 of 500 babies born in Bali every year are infected by HIV/AIDs, the professor at the medical faculty of the Udayana University, said.

http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/84293/500-pregnant-women-in-bali-infected-by-hivaids-every-year

TaufanTasch is based in Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia, and is a Reporter for Allvoices.

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