Jakarta – According to the National Commission for AIDS (Komnas-AIDS), "good" housewives make up 59.9 percent of women living with HIV in Indonesia.

Commission secretary Nafsiah Mboi said here Monday that, according to official data, women account for 25 percent of the 3,525 people living with HIV nationwide.

"They are monogamous, faithful wives and not drug users who use syringes. They most probably contracted the disease from their husbands who have used syringes or practiced unsafe sex," Nafsiah said as quoted by kompas.com.

She also lamented the lack of awareness among men about the use of condoms, saying that it was important for men who have more than one sexual partner men to use condoms, even when having sex with their wives.