URBANISATION AND HIV IN BANDUNG CITY (HEALTH GEOGRAPHY PERSPECTIVES)

Bandung city is one of the regions which have biggest suspects of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Indonesia. Various attempts were made by the local government to tackle HIV's spread, but the trend is increasing in line with urbanization rate. Through a spatial perspective, this study aims to analyze the relationship between urbanization and spread of HIV in Bandung City through Spearman-Rank analysis and Global Moran's I auto-correlation. Urbanization data were obtained from built areas based on remote sensing imageries, whereas the spread of HIV is provided by Bandung Health Office. The results showed that urbanization had a significant negative correlation with the number of HIV in Bandung City. The spatial distribution of HIV has an upward trend of 0.225 with a random pattern, with the highest increase occurred in Coblong sub-district. The dynamics distribution of urbanization and HIV in Bandung City had a centralized pattern with different spatial concentrations.