Turkey in the last 10 years, HIV / AIDS, a 10-fold increase in diagnosis & # 39;

GSK Turkey biopharmaceutical companies by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), organized to attract attention "to 1 Ara" lık you "campaign was launched at a meeting held at the park Dedeman Levent.

Dr. Park Dedeman, Secretary General of HAKED, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology. Dr. Serhat Ünal, Chair of the HIV / AIDS Working Group of the Turkish Association of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (KLIMİK) Dr. Volkan Korten is Director of the Center for Research and Application on HIV / AIDS. HIV / AIDS of Ege University (EGEHAUM) and the Association for AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD). Dr. Dr. Deniz Gökengin, Head of the HIV Infection Association (HIVEND) Dr. Fehmi Tabak of Turkey and Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Specialist Association (EKMUD) Prof. Dr. Dr. Hüsnü Pullukçu participated.

HIV / AIDS awareness in Turkey emphasized that low Prof. Dr. Unal, as a result of this increase in the number of diagnosed and says that discrimination on this issue continues violently.

Unal, stressing the need to create a social conscience on HIV-AIDS, said:

"For you, we need programs like December 1 In areas where medicine is not enough, patient organizations and student communities play an important role in raising awareness of society. Turkey in the last 10 years, HIV / AIDS, a 10-fold increase in diagnosis. There are a number of HIV-positive people in this country. The question is, how can we find them? We do not have the chance to find a test. The disease has arrived at the last stage, the symptoms have appeared. Due to the illness applied to the hospital, they come naturally, but it is important to catch up with the patient early in the period and heal better. If you treat the disease, you can break the chain of transmission. Therefore, a test strategy is necessary. "

"940,000 deaths in 2017 due to HIV-AIDS in the world"

Prof. Dr. Korten also referred to data from the World Health Organization and reported that 36 million to 900,000 people were living with HIV by the end of 2017.

The new infection occurred during the last year. About 1.8 million people reported that Korten, "940,000 deaths in 2017. With effective treatment since 1996, we are seeing a reduction in the number of deaths from HIV worldwide." . In 2010, it dropped to 1.4 million, compared to 940,000 last year. The number of people living with HIV around the world is steadily increasing as the number of deaths decreases."he said.

Korten, all regions of the world observe that the new cases are stagnating, said: "Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Central Asian region, where the number of cases is rising rapidly.For example, Kazakhstan, one of the countries with the highest increase, a close commercial and tourist relationship ". found in the description.

32 years, 17 thousand 884 people in Turkey, have taken the diagnosis of HIV

Professor Dr. Gökengin, recalling this topic in 1985, the first diagnosis in Turkey, "the figures reported as official since 1985 31 December, 2017 of 17000 884 This is a result entirely based on the passive reporting system. Thus, the patient comes, he is diagnosed and the doctors who The more detailed figures are not officially available, but according to estimates, the actual figures are different. "gave me information.

In Turkey, which indicates that the number of new diagnosed at a very rapid increase from 2010, Gökengin "There are some changes in the age of the new diagnoses. This is a very important situation. The highest age group is in the 25 to 34 age group, but in the 35 to 44 age group, there was an increase in the 20 to 24 age group. What worries us most is the emergence of an upward trend in the 15-19 age group, even if it is minimal, "he said.

In the meeting Dr. Fehmi methods of the world and Tabak test in Turkey, Prof. Dr. Hüsnü Pullukçu also gave information on treatment methods.