The first antiretroviral "avoids" HIV infection

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. Its intake accounts for 90% of effectiveness to avoid getting infected with HIV.

In the country there are 152 thousand 783 people registered by the National Center for Prevention and Control of HIV and AIDS (Censida): 73 thousand 914 carriers of the virus and the rest has already developed the syndrome. acquired immunodeficiency

Martínez Orozco pointed out that a patient diagnosed with HIV, for example, represents a cost to the health sector of 14 thousand 850 a month, giving them two treatments, Efavirenz and Truvada, with which they control HIV-infected patients to prevent the development of the disease.

If risk areas visit Sandoz, they take it before having risky practices: having sex 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 1,200 million pesos for the purchase of antiretrovirals.

"It is not the pill the next day, but a treatment that is taken every month during You have these risky practices.In the case of sexual intercourse, it must be combined with barrier methods such as the condom, "says the specialist infectious diseases.

According to Censida, from 1983 to the first quarter of 2018, 196 227 cases were reported, of which, 152 000 783 still live.

When a person already has AIDS, she attacks the immune system, stops functioning effectively, returns to the body likely to develop infections, cancers and diseases that, without treatment, are fatal .