Fungal infections and white patches in the mouth accompanied by the smell is one of the clinical symptoms in people living with HIV / AIDS. In Indonesia in particular areas of Papua that the level of risk of HIV / AIDS was high, a medical personnel can usually easily diagnose patients infected with HIV / AIDS without blood or laboratory tests.
"Because I had many such patients, the nurse already knows, is common. So do not check anything, with him smell the patient's mouth, he already knew that it was AIDS," said Deputy Secretary of the National AIDS Commission (NAC) Program Field Dr . Fonny J Silfanus, M. Kes, in Jakarta, Thursday (05/12/2011).
