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Action will conduct rapid tests for the population who will continue to participate in awareness conferences
World AIDS Day will be scheduled this Saturday 01/12 in health facilities in the neighboring districts of Vila Rica and Itamarati. Between 9 am and 1 pm, doctors and nurses will give lectures on sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV / AIDS. The Department of Health will also conduct rapid tests to identify the HIV virus, Sifilis, hepatitis C and B, and distribute condoms to the community.
Each year, the action is conducted with the aim of disseminating the guidelines on methods of prevention of STIs, mainly transmitted by sexual contact, without the use of a male or female condom, with a infected person. STIs are also transmissible from mother to child during pregnancy, delivery, or breastfeeding. "The municipality has always sought to facilitate the access of our population to this information," said Mayor Bernardo Rossi.
In the last eleven years, the Municipal Coordination of Epidemiological Surveillance has registered 743 people infected with HIV / AIDS. Of this total, 492 men, 248 are women and 3 children. This year, the number of cases was reduced by 28% compared to 2017, when the number of people infected with HIV / AIDS had increased. To date, in 2018, 61 patients have been notified, compared with 84 the previous year. In 2017, the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit recorded a 40% increase over the average of 59.5% over the last 10 years.
"The municipality has acted to sensitize the population in order to reduce the number of people in the city and to ensure that the people who have identified the virus receive the care offered by the city," said Fabíola Heck, secretary for the Health. The Department of Parasitic Infectious Diseases (DIP) and STD-Aids, which operates at the Nelson Sá Earp Municipal Hospital, employs professionals who provide daily care to the population that records cases of biological and environmental injuries. sexual violence.
The municipality also relies on the Fique Sabendo program, which aims to strengthen outreach work in the units and to organize conferences in companies and schools. The city also has a daily presence in the health units for carrying out rapid tests, the results being presented in twenty minutes. "People receive their results and if they are positive, for STIs, HIV / AIDS and hepatitis C and B, they are referred to start a treatment," said the coordinator of technical areas of health, Patrícia Rodrigues.
The units that will receive the awareness actions in Rua A, next to block 28, in Vila Rica and in Rua Bernardo Proença, 32.
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