500 Pregnant Women In Bali Infected HIV Every Year

Denpasar (Antara Bali) - Bali's Aids Controlling Commission (KPA) said around 500 pregnant women in Bali carry HIV/AIDs every year.

A Commission chairman Prof I Dewa Nyoman Wirawan said here on Saturday a survey showed that 1 percent of around 50,000 pregnant women every year in Bali are infected by HIV/AIDs .

Dewa Nyoman blamed husbands who have the tendency to change sexual partners for the transmission of the deadly disease to their wives at home.

The transmission of the disease did not stop at the wives but  the babies in their wombs would also be infected, he said.

The possibility of the fetus  being infected by the diseases from and infected mother is high, he said.

He said around 50 percent of fetuses in the wombs of pregnant carrying HIV/AIDs would be infected by the disease.(IGT)