Banjarmasin, S Kalimantan (Antaranews Kalsel) - Deputy Chairperson of Commission IV of the People's Welfare Division of the South Kalimantan DPRD Iskandar Zulkarnain expects the local government to be able to suppress the number of people living with HIV/AIDS.
"Because the percentage of HIV/AIDS patients in our province is greater than East Java, which has a population of tens of millions," said the people's representative from the constituent of Kotabaru and Tanah Bumbu who expressed his hope here in the commemoration of World AIDS Day on December 1, 2018.
"At least the number of people with HIV/AIDS should not increase in our province which now has a population of more than four million and spread to 13 districts and cities," he said answering the Antaranews Kalsel.
He did not mention the difference in the percentage of HIV/AIDs patients between South Kalimantan and East Java, except for the province cumulatively reaching 2000 people.
"We know the number of HIV/AIDS patients in East Java when Commission IV, which is also in charge of health and chaired by Yazidie Fauzi SKom, made a comparative study to the province recently," he said.
"We hope that the 2000 figure will be the highest and the last in South Kalimantan, where the majority of the population is classified as religious," said Iskandar Zulkarnain.
Meanwhile, in commemoration of World AIDs Day 2018, Banjarmasin Polytechnic students handed out red flower made of plastic-wrapped paper at several stop lights in the capital of South Kalimantan.
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"Because the percentage of HIV/AIDS patients in our province is greater than East Java, which has a population of tens of millions," said the people's representative from the constituent of Kotabaru and Tanah Bumbu who expressed his hope here in the commemoration of World AIDS Day on December 1, 2018.
"At least the number of people with HIV/AIDS should not increase in our province which now has a population of more than four million and spread to 13 districts and cities," he said answering the Antaranews Kalsel.
He did not mention the difference in the percentage of HIV/AIDs patients between South Kalimantan and East Java, except for the province cumulatively reaching 2000 people.
"We know the number of HIV/AIDS patients in East Java when Commission IV, which is also in charge of health and chaired by Yazidie Fauzi SKom, made a comparative study to the province recently," he said.
"We hope that the 2000 figure will be the highest and the last in South Kalimantan, where the majority of the population is classified as religious," said Iskandar Zulkarnain.
Meanwhile, in commemoration of World AIDs Day 2018, Banjarmasin Polytechnic students handed out red flower made of plastic-wrapped paper at several stop lights in the capital of South Kalimantan.
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