Blog 3- HIV in Indonesia

In Indonesia there has been a huge increase of people obtaining HIV and this is coming from things like prostitution. The reason they say that so many people are obtaining HIV is because 25.9 percent of sex workers have HIV. The disease is spreading so rapidly because in Indonesia many people are involved with sex workers. In Bali Indonesia it is said that there is over 100,000 clients for sex workers. This is the main reason that HIV is spreading so much, because so many people are involved with sex workers. Another reason that HIV is spreading is because safe sex is so hard for everyone there because it is hard to give out contraceptives to so many workers when they work in thousands of islands in Indonesia. It is also very expensive to give out that many contraceptives to people because it is not all funded by the government. Another thing is that many people do not want to practice safe sex so this is making the problem even worse because the more people that get HIV the more it will spread.

The reason that this is a social issue in the world is that this problem of HIV could spread everywhere throughout the world. Indonesia as a nation needs to take an act on this issue and possibly restrict some aspects of sex workers. This is also a problem because HIV is also not a curable disease so the more people that have it, the more people will die. This issue could be stopped if people were willing to help and I think the first step would be convincing people that safe sex is good and showing them the consequences of not performing safe sex.