Community Health VOLUME I  No 1 April 2013 Halaman 1 - 9 Persepsi Karyawan Hotel Tentang Hiv/Aids Di Kota Denpasar Tahun 2012 Adi Ksamawan * 1 , Partha Muliawan 1 Alamat: PS Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat Fak. Kedokteran Universitas Udayana Email: adiksamawan@rocketmail.com *Penulis untuk berkorespondensi Community Health 2013, I:1  1 Artikel Penelitian PENDAHULUAN Penyakit HIV/AIDS sampai saat ini belum ditemukan obat yang dapat membunuh virusnya. Berdasarkan laporan perkembangan kasus HIV/AIDS di Indonesia sampai dengan bulan Juni 2012, tiga jenis pekerjaan yang menduduki peringkat tertinggi untuk jumlah kasus kumulatif AIDS dari tahun 1987 sampai Juni 2012 adalah wiraswasta (3733 kasus), ibu rumah tangga (3368 kasus) tenaga non professional atau karyawan (3220 kasus) sedangkan dari umur, maka didominasi oleh kelompok umur produktif yaitu 20-29 tahun (41,5%), 30-39 tahun (30,8%) dan 40-49 tahun (11,6 %) (Dirjen PP & PL Kemenkes RI, 2012). Pemerintah saat ini sangat memperhatikan kejadian HIV/AIDS pada tenaga kerja ABSTRACT The number of cumulative AIDS cases from 1987 to June 2012 in Indonesia, based on the type of work dominated by three groups, that is self-employed, housewives, and employees. The government is very concerned with issues of HIV / AIDS on labor so that the theme which was appointed to commemorate World AIDS Day 2011 is devoted to the protection of industrial and workers from HIV/AIDS. This theme is associated with a strategy for HIV/AIDS globally in 2011-2015 is “Getting to Zero”, which one of his vision is zero discrimination. These efforts are expected to reduce the negative stigma and discrimination against People Life With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in particular to workers. The purpose of this study was to get an overview of the perception of hotel employees in Denpasar about HIV/AIDS. This research is a quantitative explanatory using cross-sectional approach. The sample was 115 people were taken to the multi-stage random sampling technique. Data were collected using a questionnaire and then analyzed descriptively. The results showed that more than half of respondents had a low level of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and the level of knowledge from respondents there is no a significant difference viewed from the education, age and income. The perception of the respondents about HIV/AIDS almost equal between the “negative perception” and “positive perception” however, “negative perception” tend to be large than the “positive perception”. Keyword: knowledge, perception, HIV/AIDS.