Indonesia Predicts Half a Million Aids Cases

By Wombat | November 30th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

AIDS is on the increase worldwide and in poorer countries it just keeps on increasing even though the countries concerned try heavily to educate and instruct the use of condoms. Although not truly classified as a poor country, Reuters reported this horrific disease is on the increase here too.

Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, is projecting half a million HIV cases by 2010, and double that if preventive steps are not taken, the health minister said today.

Current estimates put the number of cases in a range of 169 000 – 216 000 in Indonesia, which has a total population of 220 million, although only about 7 000 full-blown Aids cases have been reported, of whom 1 651 have died. - Reuters