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In Mexico, the first preventive treatment was introduced to prevent the infection of high-risk areas by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), including infected people, migrants, nurses and doctors treating HIV-infected patients. Illness, tattoos, prostitutes and injecting drug users, reported José Arturo Martínez Orozco, infectious disease specialist at the Ministry of Health.
The specialist explained that the generic Sandoz treatment, indicated as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), is consistent with the antiretroviral drugs Emtricitabine and Tenofobir.
Their consumption represents an efficiency of 90% to avoid being infected with HIV. In the country there are 152 000 783 people registered by the National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV and AIDS (Censida): 73 thousand 914 carriers of the virus and the rest have already developed the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Martinez Orozco pointed out that a patient diagnosed with HIV, for example, represents a cost to the health sector of 14,000,850 a month, giving them two treatments, Efavirenz and Truvada, for control HIV-infected patients. 19659002] If risk areas go to the doctor and receive Sandoz, they take it before having risky practices – having bad with an infected person or performing surgeries; The treatment has a cost of about 4 thousand pesos a month. Censida would save about 200 million pesos on more than 200 million intended for the purchase of antiretrovirals.
"It's not the morning after pill, but a treatment that is taken monthly while you have these drugs." In the case of badual intercourse, it must be combined with barrier methods such as the condom, "says the infectious diseases specialist.
According to Censida, from 1983 to the first quarter of 2018, 196,227 cases were reported, of which, 152,000 783 still live.
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