Workshop on sexual health and rapid HIV test in Hogar de Cristo

He was responsible for the staff at CAPS La Cuchilla. The municipality has introduced it to promote initiatives that support the health of neighbors from the point of view of promotion and prevention.

Health promotion and prevention policies are a central focus of municipal government and are implemented through the primary health care system, which includes 9 health centers, community integration centers, work programs and networks with educational and social institutions.

In this context, the promotion of holistic badual health education has the Hogar de Cristo workshop on badual health and the rapid HIV test. At the meeting, obstetrician Maria Eugenia Wigandt, nurse Verónica Sotto, health promoter Paola Doello and psychologist Valeria Casanova were able to address these issues with the aim of preventing the transmission of HIV, reduce the morbidity and mortality badociated with infection, the incidence of badually transmitted infections and promote research on HIV / AIDS and STIs

A confidential, free and simple HIV test was also conducted with a result of 15 minutes.

Country Statistics

Every day in Argentina, 17 people become infected with HIV, and 5 more die of AIDS. Of the 120,000 people living with HIV in Argentina, 90% have contracted the virus during unprotected bad. To this statistic is added another that indicates that 3 out of 10 people living with the virus do not know it. While 3 out of 10 people who access their diagnosis are doing so late.

"The numbers have an impact on their own, but the idea is much stronger when you realize that each number is a person with a story, a life, a family. Ignoring or believing that "HIV has already been," is what makes the epidemic more valuable than ever, "said Leandro Cahn, executive director of Fundación Huésped.