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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - AIDS Commission (KPA), the National record, the majority of women with AIDS is a housewife, not a sex worker!

National AIDS Commission Secretary Nafsiah Mboi said housewife with AIDS the number reached 59.9 percent of the total female patients. "The most commonly infected are not sex workers, but rather a housewife, you know," he said at City Hall, Monday (07/12/2010).

Nafsiah continue, the total number of female AIDS patients is only 25.08 percent of total AIDS patients. Housewives, people with AIDS to reach 1970 people of a total of 3525 women with AIDS in the past 10 years until 2009.

"These women monogamous marriage, was never a physical affair and never injector.'s Likely that their husbands or hooked injector pocket," he said.

Nafsiah deplore the low awareness of using condoms in the life of the household. In fact, condoms useful to prevent transmission of HIV / AIDS. Meanwhile, sex workers "helped" because they follow the program of condom use, unlike the housewife. "So, the use of condoms, although already married, it is very important," he said.