Tangerang, Banten – The Health Workplace of Tangerang city, Banten, held HIV screening or HIV testing for 200 prisoners at Class IIA Tangerang prison.
The screening was focused on finding people dealing with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) as the signs of help can not be found without an assessment, the person in charge of the HIV/AIDS and Sexually Sent Contagious Illness Program at the Tangerang City Health Workplace, Farida Helmy, said in Tangerang on Saturday.
” The screening must be carried out massively to discover people living with HIV/AIDS because the early symptoms of AIDS typically can not be identified by their physical appearance.
She likewise advised the public to get tested for HIV.
” For pregnant females, they are required to perform an evaluation called triple removal, which includes testing for HIV/AIDS, syphilis, and Liver disease B simultaneously. These are all offered in all neighborhood university hospital in Tangerang city,” she notified.
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Head of Class IIA Tangerang prison, Herastini, expressed the hope that such education and screening activities would continue to be held to inform prisoners along with to check their health condition.
” I hope that all of them are negative here; nobody is HIV favorable. Besides, I hope that activities like this will continue to be held, and we are really open since this is likewise for the good of the citizens of the Class IIA Tangerang jail, too,” the prison head said.
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