Yellow Campaign intensifies services to fight viral hepatitis | Para

There will also be programming in other places. July 3rd, from 8 am to noon, will take place at the Barreiro Fair, in the vicinity of the Telegraph; and at 4 pm, HIV training at Casa Dia; on days 4 and 5, from 10 am to 10 pm, there will be tests at the Bosque Grão Pará shopping center; and day 10, from 8 am to noon, tests at the UMS of Marambaia. All actions are free.

Throughout the month of July, several campaigns will be conducted, explaining to the population the existence of the disease and its forms of transmission and treatment, particularly in the shopping centers of the city of Belém and in the municipal spas. .

The health secretary of the municipality, Sérgio Amorim, stressed that prevention remains the best weapon to cope with hepatitis. "In the year 2017, we have done more than 2,000 tests of hepatitis in the various health units of the municipality, where 12 cases have been detected at home and these patients are already treated," he said. -he explains.

According to Cledson Sampaio, municipal coordinator of the technical reference for badually transmitted infections, HIV / AIDS and viral hepatitis Sesma, this is only through campaigns such as July Yellow that it will be possible to bring information to all. "It is a work done during the year, but which has a warning moment in the month of July.In the campaign, we draw attention to the diagnosis, which is accessible through rapid testing in 29 municipal health units and in 16 units of the Belem family health strategy, which provides free condoms male and female in the field of prevention.Vaccines against hepatitis A and B in all network immunization rooms, "said Cledson.