Jakarta - People with HIV / AIDS in Indonesia until March 2011 reached 24 282 patients. DKI Jakarta, East Java, West Java, Papua, and Bali dominate the cases of HIV / AIDS.

"AIDS the number of cases up to March 2011 was 24,282 people, the national prevalence is still below 0.2 percent, meaning that relatively low and has already reached the MDG target which must be below 0.5 percent. 5 provinces with the highest number of AIDS cases are DKI Jakarta, East Java , West Java, Papua and Bali, "said Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2PL) Ministry of Health, Tjandra Yoga Aditama, told AFP on Saturday (02/07/2011).

It is also conveyed in Plennary Yoga Lecture 1 on the "Symposium Infection, degenerative, and regenerative - Medicine Update 2011" organized by Hang Tuah University Surabaya.

For tuberculosis (TB), Indonesia's ranking improved from No. 3 had been the case in the world to No. 5 in the world. The rating is the absolute number, because large populations of the relative number of cases be greater than any other country, when speaking rate (number of patients / total population), the ranking of Indonesia does not include the top 10.

"The number of national TB case finding was 78.3 percent in 2010, it was better than the international target (MDG) that should have at least 70 percent," he explained.

Meanwhile we Malaria Annual Parasitic Index has declined from 4.68 in 1990 to 1.96 in 2010 now. The next target is below 1 in 2015.

"For dengue, although morbidity (number of cases) is still fluctuating but death rates can already suppressed below 1 percent, which is now 0.87 percent. For rabies, rabies-free province is 9 Kep Riau, Bangka Belitung, DKI Jakarta, Central Java, Yogyakarta , East Java, West Nusa Tenggara, Papua and West Papua, "he added.

Yoga adds, for we have entered the leprosy elimination status of leprosy since 2000 with a prevalence of less than 1/10.000 inhabitants, but there is still a problem of leprosy in children by 11.3 percent in 2011. Indonesia is also still face the problem of "neglected tropical diseases", such as yaws (6176 patients in 2010), chronic filarial cases (11 914 cases in 2010) and schistosomiasis.

ID-Headline - Jet black hair that will change with age to gray to white gray alias. There is a difference between the two gender, men and women. Hair graying women often faster than in men. Why?

A group of British scientists found the answer. A large scale study found that the genes and lifestyles of women are more likely to cause gray hair. This differs from earlier theories that the levels of gray hair on a person relies on negative factors such as level of health, stress or diet.

Researchers studied more than 200 identical twin and non-identical between the ages of 59 to 81 years in England. Identical twins, who share the same gene have identical gray hair condition as well.

On the other hand, non-identical twins who have different genes, have different levels of gray.

The findings, made ​​a hair-care company reinforces the conclusion that women are gray due to the nature of genes.

According to experts, you can not change genetics and its influence on the hair. However, an appropriate range of hair care and hair health condition of the body will slow down the process of bleaching the hair. (umi)