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On Saturday 1st, World AIDS Day, the Guarujá Health Secretariat, through the Center for Screening, Counseling, Prevention and Training (CTAPT), will promote guidance actions on the disease. , as well as condom distribution.
The activities take place from 10h to 16h. There will be points and distributions of condoms at the Vicente de Carvalho Ferry Terminal, the Ferry Terminal (United Nations Square, Vila Ligia) and Santos Dumont Avenue, 840 Santo Antônio.
Tents with HIV counseling and testing sites will also be set up at the following locations:
– Expeditionary Square (Pitangueiras Beach)
– Av. Miguel Stefano – in front of the hotel Casa Grande, on the beach of Enseada
– Clover of the Santa Rosa district
– Society of Friends of Perequê (SAPE), Estrada Guarujá-Bertioga, 80
In Praça 14 Bis, besides a big tent for testing, there will be two smaller ones for population orientation and the distribution of information and condoms (male and female).
The CTAPT coordinator in Guarujá, Márcia Helena Rodrigues, emphasized that the actions are directed so that the population does not forget that prevention is very important to avoid contagion. "The main goal is to draw attention again to AIDS, to keep in mind that the disease still exists and that people need to be aware of the importance prevention. "
1st December
Thirty years ago – October 27, 1988 – the United Nations General Assembly and the World Health Organization established December 1 as World AIDS Day. Five years after the discovery of the virus at the origin of the disease – HIV – 65,700 people had already been diagnosed with the virus and 38,000 had already died.
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