Voluntary promoters support fight against the VIH-SIDA

Thousands of Cuban, including carriers of the VIH-SIDA, are promotional volunteers in the campaign of prevention and control of that disease, that affects more than 41 million inhabitants in the planet.
Even though the country exhibits a low rate of prevalence, the education and qualification constitutes a sanitary priority like the welfare work, by means of which the totality of the affected ones has insured the antiretrovirales treatments.
In occasion to be celebrated today, the World-wide Day of fight against the AIDS, in the 14 provinces takes place an ample day that involve schools, centers of work, parks and other sites public where they are made video-you debate, didactic conferences, games, Gallic cultural and other initiatives.
The strategy in Santiago of Cuba was directed to elevate the sensibilización and the perception of the risk before that pandemic that has in the main prevention the therapeutic one.
Kenya doctor Fernandez, person in charge of qualification of that program in the territory, explained that in the matter of promotion three consultancies work, one of which is via telephone, another face to face and the anonymous one.
The work in student, labor centers and community puts emphasis in the adolescents and young people, men who have sex with other men and women, being those of greater incidences.
The specialist emphasized that in the medical report a service of clinical inmunología in the Hospital was inaugurated east year Dark brown Juan Zayas, where exists a novel technological equipment for an attention of quality to these patients.
A quarter of century after its appearance, the pandemic of the AIDS progresses to a rate of 11 thousand new contagios per day in the orb. (AIN)