Impact of HIV / AIDS

Impact of HIV / AIDS

Health care systems of HIV / AIDS

A high prevalence of HIV and AIDS in any group means that more and more people become sick and require service health services. The slow progression of HIV infection means that patients gradually become more painful in the long a long time, requiring more health care.

The direct health care costs of is the longer will become even greater. Is also taken into account the time spent by family members to care for patients, and can not do
productive activity. Time and given resources to treating patients with HIV and AIDS little by little to affect other programs and the resources available for health activities other.

Research conducted by John Caldor et al in 2005 predicts that by 2010, if prevention efforts are not 6% increased the bed will be used by AIDS patients and in Papua reached 14% and in 2025 figures - these figures will be 11% and 29%. The increasing number of AIDS patients means increasing need of ARVS.

Damage to the immune system has exacerbated the health problems society which previously had been available is tuberculosis. Many studies showing that the incidence of TB has increased evident among HIV cases. TB is still one problem
a major public health in Indonesia, where once a year found more than 300,000 new cases, the treatment for both types of this disease should be done simultaneously.