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Indonesia Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) posed a
major public
health threat for Indonesia in the early 1990s. Although
in an
April 1992 report the Department of Health reported only
fortyseven documented cases of individuals whose blood tested
positive
for human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV), according to the
department there were at least 100 times that many
undocumented HIV
cases, making a net estimate of 4,700 cases. According to
government officials, the most likely mode of HIV/AIDS
transmission
was through heterosexual contact with prostitutes. By the
end of
1990, twelve cases of AIDS had been reported in Indonesia.
While
the Department of Health devoted relatively few of its
resources to
disease prevention in 1991, it cooperated with the World
Health
Organization (WHO) in the distribution of 500,000 condoms
annually
and with a United States Agency for International
Development
(USAID)-sponsored family planning program, which had made
condom
use widely accepted throughout the country. Although the
Ford
Foundation and USAID funded AIDS prevention and awareness
programs
in Bali, there were virtually no other such public or
private
programs in Indonesia in the early 1990s.
Data as of November 1992
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