Republic / For one year new cases of HIV infection, 178 people and 14 people have died

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People infected with HIV are now available in modern therapy in Serbia, which has turned the infection into a deadly chronic disease, but addiction and stigma remain a major problem that keeps people from getting sick. To involve and socialize.

It is estimated that 3,500 people are HIV-positive in Serbia, but one-third of them are unaware that they are infected because there is no demonstration.

In many cases, infections are detected when the first symptoms appear. Last year, in our country, 178 new cases of infection were detected and 14 patients died.

The executive director of the Union of Organizations of People Living with HIV and AIDS, Vladimir Antic, said that support for newly infected people is very important and that the parents' council plays a very important role.

– Counseling parents means that people living with HIV provide support to newly infected people. Budget funding for this type of advice is not well defined, Antic said at the conference "Sustainable Services for People Living with HIV".

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He hopes that parental counseling services will find their place in the 2020 program budget of the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Affairs and adds that funding for this service is a place at the national level.

"Supporting people living with HIV for human dignity and HIV prevention is necessary if we are to stop the spread of infection," he said.

Assistant Minister of Labor Nina Mitic said that infected people discriminated against others out of fear, and that fear was due to ignorance.

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We must all work together to reduce stigma and prejudice.

The most common way of transmitting HIV infection remains the least protected sexual intercourse, whereas it is then transmitted through common injecting drugs. In two thirds of people, HIV was diagnosed at an advanced stage, meaning that their immune system was already severely impaired. Most importantly, the infection should be detected as soon as possible and those infected with HIV should immediately begin to diagnose the treatment.

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