[ad_1]
City officials and public school students participate in activities this Friday (30)
The municipal health secretariat (SMS) Ponta Grossa organizes a mobilization Friday (30) in reference to the World Day against AIDS, to be held next Saturday (1). The actions will be organized by the specialized assistance service (SAE) and the testing and counseling center (CTA), and will be held in different parts of the city.
As part of the awareness, all SMS servers will wear a t-shirt created for the campaign and will take a photo in front of their work unit between 9am and 10am. Employees appointed at City Hall and linked to the SMS will register with all the municipal secretaries at 9.30 am in front of the Ponta Grossa Town Hall.
In addition, 17 colleges of the public education network of Ponta Grossa will organize conferences and educational activities during the day. In an interview with Portal aRede, the SAE / CTA coordinator, Jean Zuber, revealed that young people aged 15 to 24 were one of the main objectives of the campaign. They have been identified as a priority by the Ministry of Health because of the high frequency of cases in recent years. Zuber also points out that the male audience is important for outreach because it concentrates 70% of the calls going on in Oriente's public state system.
By posting data until November 26, Ponta Grossa found a decline in the number of HIV and AIDS cases among adults and children. Cases of confirmation of the HIV virus increased from 67 to 58 this year, with a reduction of 13.5%. The number of AIDS cases among adults recorded the largest decline, from 66 last year to 22 in 2018, with a decrease of 300%. This is the lowest number since 1994, when 19 cases were confirmed. Municipal health teams have not yet confirmed the cases this year, repeating the rates for 2015 and 2016. In 2017, a case of this type was reported.
Lack of information
According to Zuber, even with technology, many myths and misleading information undermine awareness of prevention and prevention: "It is important that people seek the right information to choose the most appropriate forms of prevention. do not have protection, you may be able to come into contact with a sexually transmitted disease, such as HIV. "The coordinator also highlighted the difference between HIV and AIDS, explaining that after infection, The virus can remain dormant for years, until it has an impact on the reduction of the immune system and the manifestation of AIDS in the body.
tests
The 54 basic health units (UBS) in Ponta Grossa offer rapid tests for HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. The outpatient clinics of the central campus and the Uvaranas campus of the State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG) and army barracks also offer the tests.
[ad_2]
Source link
