"There are 6,066 HIV cases in Indonesia, but the KPN estimated the number at 20,000," Mboi said here on Monday. She was speaking at the opening of a regional meeting held to formulate efforts to handle HIV/AIDS cases in Bali, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) and East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).
She said that if no preventive measure was taken, the number of AIDS/HIVE cases in Indonesia would rise to two million by 2020.
ANTARA quoting Dr Nafsiah Mboi as saying in Makassar last month that up to March 2008, the number of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia had been recorded at 17,998, and about 10 percent of them are HIV carriers while the remaining 90 percent are people on the verge of developing full-blown AIDS.
The KPA`s figures are on detected carriers and based on medical reports on people who underwent medical examinations. The real number of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia is believed to be much higher.
According to Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare Aburizal Bakrie, the number of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia had continued to increase.
He said the disease was estimated to infect 400,000 and kill 100,000 people in 2010.
"Without adequate intervention, the virus will by 2015 have infected one million people, killed 350,000 and infected 38,500 children," he said.
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