ADOLESCENT SEX AND ITS HIV/AIDS PREVENTION IN INDONESIA

[[abstract]]Background: Adolescents are at the center of the pandemic in terms of transmission, impact, and potential for changing the attitudes and behaviors that underlie this disease. Adolescents are vulnerable because they often do not know how serious the problem of HIV/AIDS is, as many do not have access to information. Due to the lack of knowledge and understanding many do not consider themselves at risk, as they perceive HIV as something that occurs only among sex workers, drug users or homosexual communities, consequently continue in engaging in risky behavior. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to understand adolescent sex and its HIV/AIDS prevention in Indonesia and factors that influence them. Method: The secondary data was provided from Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey 2007. We used 8,861 respondent of single status aged 15 ? 24 years old who have sex intercourse. We identified factors that influence HIV/AIDS prevention such as age, education, area of residence, occupational status and gender. Logistic regression analysis is used to estimate the qualitative determinant of adolescent sex and HIV/AIDS prevention in Indonesia with cross-sectional data. Results: The logistic regression results indicated that compared to reference group (no education), higher education levels (primary, secondary and higher) more likely to used condom during sex (ORR=9.69 and 95% CI=1.24-75.65); (ORR=12.28 and 95% CI = 1.58- 95.49); (ORR=13.22 and 95% CI=1.69-103.2). Also shows that people who live in urban area (OR = 1.167 and 95% CI = 1.021 ? 1.333) were likely to using condom during sex more than rural area. As we predict previous, male more likely using condom during sex than female. Respondents who working and not working cannot predict using condom during sex intercourse. Conclusions: This study has analyzed the effect of education level to prevent HIV/AIDS by always using condom during sex intercourse. It has shown the high level education groups have been used condom during sex more likely than low level education groups. Also predisposing factors such as gender and area of residence. Health care policy makers should pay more attention to encourage health care personal, promote and support using condom during sex to target groups, and government should be give sex education for those groups