Five Million AIDS Patients in Indonesia

Indonesia: Health experts on AIDS reported on Monday there are five million patients in 300 cities and districts in Indonesia.

According to the health center IMAI, this number is an estimate of the HIV virus cases who went to hospitals, which are only 10 percent of the true number of carriers in that country.

IMAI Chief, Ronald Jonathan, stated that reported cases will be between 93 to 130 thousand next year, which is only the tip of the iceberg "five or 10 percent of HIV carriers in Indonesia".

Jonathan said that the archipelago had about 18,442 HIV positive, Prensa Latina