Preventive measures and recommendations for dealing with this disease

The increase in HIV infections has sparked a national alert. But, what is HIV? How is he contracted? and how do I know if I am a carrier ?, are just some of the questions that arise when we talk about the human immunodeficiency virus better known as HIV

. nurse in charge of epidemiology and vaccination. Cecilia Cáceres, gives her recommendations on how to treat it and preventative measures.

The first thing is to know what is HIV: "it is a virus that enters your body, and can last up to ten years without presenting any symptoms, but that Over time, AIDS is turning into acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a disease that lowers defenses, so even a cold can kill us if we have this pathology, "says Cáceres. the contagion, the professional mentions that there are several mechanisms, "the most common is for bad, the mother who has HIV can infect her baby when she is pregnant, when he also claims that another means of transmission is through the needlestick of an HIV patient, although it warns that "usually here in Chile the blood is controlled, many are made"

Prevention is undoubtedly the key to avoiding contagion: "First and foremost, the use of the prese negative, young people today have stopped using condoms, have relaxed, "

He adds that" another average is to have a stable partner and he is also recommended that we all take the HIV blood test which is a very short test that will determine whether we are carriers or not, "he points out

Similarly, this relay of which the professional speaks is reflected in the statistics that they manage in the health center. "If we focus on Santa Cruz, in 2015 we had six HIV-positive cases and today we have 21 HIV-positive people, two of whom are already dead and nationally more than 200,000 people do not know not that they have HIV his body, "he says

In this sense, the Santa Cruz Hospital is deploying a series of strategies focused on promoting education. "We are very worried about this issue, especially for our young people, the most exposed age groups are between 15 and 25 years old, so we go to schools, we went to jail, we visited the radio, the place and education of this community of migrants as are the Haitians, "details the head of vaccination.