50% of HIV-positive migrants have contracted the virus in Europe – Medicine

The hard journey, badual abuse, exploitation of prostitution and poor living conditions once in Europe: this combination of causes means that one in two migrants living with HIV do not have been infected in his country of origin. origin, but once he left for what represents for him the "salute". This is what came out of the 31st Anlaids Onlus National Convention, held in Genoa for World AIDS Day.
According to the data of the National AIDS Control Plan 2017-2019, the incidence of new diagnoses of HIV infection, although it has decreased over the years, is about 4 times more among migrants as Italians and often affects women. Although often coming from African countries where the disease is widespread, the contagion of migrants occurs in half of the cases once they have left for the old continent. This is the result of a study conducted under the aMASE project (Improving migrants' access to health services in Europe) in 57 HIV treatment centers in 9 European countries, including Italy. more than 2,200 adult migrants infection. The results show that 50% of migrants living with HIV in Europe are infected in the country of arrival, with infection rates ranging from 32% to 64% depending on the host country. Soon published, the stay in Libya increases at least four times more than the risk of infection, especially among women, due to torture and ill-treatment.
"Vulnerability has many causes – says Tullio Prestileo, medical director of the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Benfratelli Civic Hospital in Palermo – born of the basic conditions in Africa and strongly implemented by the way of the least those defined by the World Health Organization as "determinants of health." In short, precarious living conditions increase the risk of becoming ill ".

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