Abstract
Health was one of the important and main element s in improving community’s welfare. Doctors and nurses were part of health workers providing health services to the community to improve their health status, including in HIV/AIDS handling efforts. Gay s were homosexuals who were closely related to HIV/AIDS. HIV prevalence of gay s in Semarang city was 12%. Doctors and nurses were health workers who ha d an important role in HIV/AIDS handling efforts. The objective of this study was to see the role of doctors and nurses in HIV/AIDS handling efforts of the g ay s. T his research applied a socio-legal approach and analytical descriptive specification. This research used primary and secondary data. The primary data were gathered through interview s and field observation. The informants were eight members of g ay community while the other informants were the head of the community beside doctors and nurses of Halmahera Health Center. The secondary data were obtained through literature studies particularly having relation with the role of doctors and nurses in handling HIV/AIDS to the g ay s. The data were then qualitatively analyzed. The results of the study showed that the doctors and nurses had well accomplished their role in handling HIV/AIDS for the gays but it had not been accomplished in accordance with the provisions of the existing legislation. In handling HIV/AIDS to gays, a doctor had a role as a care provider , a decision maker and a communicator of the actions that should be given to the patients, while a nurse had a role as a care giver and a counsellor by providing diagnoses and appropriate nursing care to the patients as needed. The supporting factors were the availability of health facilities, health resources and adequate infrastructure whereas the inhibiting factors were lack of health personnel as a counselor and lack of self-disclosure of the gays
Highlights
This research applied a socio‐legal approach and analytical descriptive specification
The informants were eight members of gay community while the other informants were the head of the community beside doctors and nurses of Halmahera Health Center
The secondary data were obtained through literature studies having relation with the role of doctors and nurses in handling HIV/AIDS to the gays
Summary
Kesehatan merupakan salah satu unsur penting dan merupakan unsur pokok dalam meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat suatu negara. Dokter dan Perawat merupakan tenaga kesehatan yang bukan hanya memberikan pelayanan pengobatan kepada para pasien, tetapi juga memberikan pelayanan kesehatan yang berkaitan dengan pencegahan dan penaggulangan penyakit termasuk penyakit menular seksual seperti HIV/AIDS. Hal ini sesuai dengan hasil Surveilans Terpadu Biologis dan Perilaku (STBP) tahun 2011 yang menemukan peningkatan prevalensi HIV pada pada kelompok Lelaki Seks Laki (LSL) yaitu dari 5% menjadi 12%. C).Identitas seksual yaitu apa yang orang lain katakan yang berkaitan dengan orientasi seksual dan perilaku seksual.[9] Di Indonesia memang belum ada peraturan khusus mengenai kaum Gay, namun seperti warga Indonesia pada umumnya secara hukum mereka masih dilindungi oleh Undang‐ Undang dan peraturan‐peraturan yang lain. Pada kenyataannya upaya penanggulangan HIV/AIDS pada kaum Gay oleh dokter dan perawat belum dilaksanakan dengan baik. Hal ini ditandai dengan masih adanya kaum gay yang terinfeksi HIV/AIDS
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