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In an allusion to the yellow July, a month of warning for the fight and prevention of viral hepatitis, the Municipal Health Foundation (FMS) promotes tomorrow morning a preventive morning at the Penitentiary Brother Guido [24] of the FMS STI / AIDS coordinator will be in prison from 8:30 to 12:30, offering rapid counseling and testing for HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and C, as well as diagnosis and management therapeutic, as well as the distribution of educational and preventive materials. According to Alana Niege, coordinator of STIs / AIDS and viral hepatitis viruses of fibromyalgia syndrome, the action aims to provide health services to the deprived population.
"We want to show the overcoming of the difficulties imposed by confinement itself, which hinders access to health services and services in a comprehensive and effective way," he says.
Viral hepatitis is a disease caused by different viruses (A, B, C, D and E). They have a universal distribution and there are territorial differences in the occurrence and magnitude of these depending on the etiological agent and the type of exposure of people to the virus. In 2010, the World Day for the Fight against Viral Hepatitis was created by the World Health Organization, which will be celebrated on July 28th. Taking advantage of this date, the Ministry of Health considered that the "Yellow Month" was a way to raise awareness about the importance of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis
Vaccines against hepatitis A and B can be avoided. There is a treatment for hepatitis C and the treatment of hepatitis B. To date, there is no vaccine against hepatitis C.
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