They aim to diagnose more HIV and TB

July 26, 2018 – 00:00
Conferences are being organized for health teams on the problem of AIDS and badually transmitted infections, the opening of rapid testing centers and the intention to block. Argentina has a higher incidence of tuberculosis.

In the country, it is estimated that there are 232,000 HIV cases, and in Jujuy there are 300 new cases last year. After the alert issued by the Ministry of Health of the Province for the number of cases of HIV, syphilis and tuberculosis, despite the fact that the country is on a plateau, it is hoped that cases will decrease with new Strategies: Go on the field with the opening of counseling and testing centers (Cepat).

"We will not achieve this goal in two years, so 90% of HIV-positive people know that they have the virus," Vila said. "As part of the Strategic Plan, we declared the health alert HIV HIV, tuberculosis, syphilis and problematic use, as a health team we are preparing these challenges to see where our mistakes lie, we have very high rates, that is why the statement of alert, "said yesterday the Minister of Health Gustavo Bouhid. He did so after inaugurating in Palpalá the conference with the National Director of AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). He was accompanied by National AIDS Director Sergio Maulen and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) advisor for the Southern Cone of HIV, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis and STIs, Marcelo Vila [19659004]. by Governor Gerardo Morales with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will review and correct the errors, so that patients do not give up the treatment and are aiming at the detection, c & # 39; This is why they open prevention, counseling and testing centers (Cepat). "It's a very young age group badociated with the four diseases: paco consumption, syphilis, tuberculosis and AIDS," said Bouhid and said they've changed their strategy.

It happens that according to georeferencing to diseases HIV is found in El Carmen, Libertador, San Pedro and San Salvador de Jujuy, and according to Bouhid are in new peri-urban settlements that do not have posts health or equipment arriving on the ground.

"The strategy is the decentralization of care for people living with HIV, and the establishment of prevention, counseling and testing centers as a tool for early and early diagnosis of HIV," said the head of the Provincial AIDS Program, Raúl Román. They understand that the only way to turn things around is that health workers and equipment are on the ground, so infectiologists go to Perico and have a plan of action. "The truth is that this is the strategy that we encourage The National Director of AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, Sergio Maulen, questions about opening up access to HIV testing in Jujuy. "What we need, is that this hard core of people who do not know how to live with HIV know it, so that they can take the drugs, so that they do not do not fall ill, so that they do not die, "he said, today it brings together hundreds of people, according to palpalbad intendant Pablo Palomares, the idea is "together to reverse the numbers."

"We are good at the regional level," says Maulen

Sergio Maulen said that "we are good at the regional level compared to other countries, but we will not achieve this goal in two years, in two years, 90% of people with badually transmitted diseases HIV knows that they have the virus, "he said about the 2020 commitment signed by all UN nations, the 90-90-90 goals.
He refused to reach more than 30 thousand people when the rate is 6,500 annual diagnoses, so he ratified that it would not be realistic for
He also recalled that 'in Argentina, being born with HIV is considered "disproportionate" to vertical transmission. He therefore felt that the strategy for using rapid HIV tests should continue to be required. and syphilis, if it is positive, do the treatment.
About the agreement signed with the PAHO, the adviser of this organization, Marcelo Vila, pointed out that if tuberculosis is badociated with a disease of the last century, it kills all over the world and Argentina does not escape, so he felt that the health system should diagnose in a timely manner, control the guidance and give drugs, so we thought about the local system that aims to decentralize HIV and Tuberculosis Care
"HIV today advanced the decade is no longer a life-threatening disease or it should not be, it is a disease that can be controlled in taking a medicine a day and for that we have to diagnose it and treat it, "he said." Argentina in terms of HIV has a very good response and is with levels of infection and epidemic comparable to South America; in tuberculosis, its incidence is greater than what it should have, which is due to this loss of consciousness, even on the part of the doctors, and the diagnosis is often delayed because it does not think TB, "he said. that he must make a greater effort to diagnose and control the outbreaks.

The situation in the province

Regarding the situation in Jujuy and response strategies, the head of the Provincial AIDS Program, Raúl Román explained that this day the province has 14 Cepat is working actively and until the end of this year, it intends to open and work with 24 centers for prevention, counseling and testing, in addition of the main hospitals working on the subject.
Although Cepat has the spirit of counseling or counseling, it differs from this because in these centers you can take an HIV test, syphilis or hepatitis. atitis; In addition to interacting with the community, civil society organizations and environmental institutions seeking to achieve a primary prevention message. Cepat has recently been inaugurated in the San Salvador neighborhoods of Jujuy: Chijra, Alberdi and will soon be inaugurated in Huaico.
"The situation is the same as in the rest of the region, we have a lot of cases accumulated but also patients who leave the treatment, and this is not good, so that's why 39, is a strategy to continue and try to reintegrate them, badisted in an integral way, "said Roman on the HIV situation in Jujuy. "We have the same numbers as last year, which is about 300 new cases per year between 2016 and 2017. El Carmen and San Pedro are the departments of the province that have diagnosed the highest number of case in the last two years. "