Kimia Farma Relieve Create AIDS Drug

East Java Provincial Health Office launched the development of the HIV virus and AIDS sufferers continues to increase. Surabaya in East Java ranks first, with the amount of 20 thousand people recorded in the year 2010. A total of six thousand of whom tested positive for HIV / AIDS.

"That data is successfully revealed," said Mudjib Afan, Head of East Java Provincial Health Office at the Seminar on HIV / AIDS in Surabaya, Thursday, December 8, 2011.

Related efforts to prevent the increasing HIV / AIDS, drug manufacturers Kimia Farma claims to have created a drug that weakens the proliferation of the HIV virus works. The drug is called antiretrovirals.

These drugs aim to reduce mortality, decrease the frequency of inpatient care in hospitals, immune recovery, as well as decrease the risk of transmission to others.

"The drug is preceded by a study conducted in 2004. The drug itself has been officially we distribute," said Sjamsul Arifin, President Director of PT Kimia Farma, on the same occasion.

Meanwhile, Dr. Endah Citraresmi Ministry of Health staff to explain deviant sexual behavior is still the most dominant factor that accounts for the high rate of HIV / AIDS in Indonesia, including in East Java. In the second sequence is alternately injecting drug users.