Fighting HIV: Condom machines in SD

AlterEgo

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The National Council for HIV (CONAVIHSIDA) will make available to the citizens of the capital the sale of condoms through dispensing machines that will be installed in commercial plazas and places with large concentrations of people.

This was reported by the director of CONAVISHIDA, Víctor Ferrero, who reported that it is a pilot plan with the aim of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.

The condoms, name of the machines, have a cost of around RD $ 6 million and would arrive in the country in three weeks. The team dispenses a bag containing two condoms at a cost of RD $ 25.

Terrero gave the information during the workshop "Together We can" aimed at journalists and social communicators, where he also reported that in 2017 were detected 2,357 new infections and 2,574 deaths related to AIDS.

Also, that in the last 10 years the number of new cases of HIV has decreased by 9 percent.

The official asked the doctors to rigorously apply the protocols of the National Program for the Reduction of Mother-to-Child Transmission, and assured that the country has yet to put an end to the mother-to-child transmission of HIV, which still affects 4 percent of pregnant women who are HIV-positive.

The official called the doctors to rigorously apply the protocols of the National Reduction Program that the authorities are promoting to achieve that goal, and proposed an alliance with the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) to guarantee its application.

"It is absolutely unacceptable," said the official, "to continue the mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the country, at a time when the program's interventions have proven effective."

The mother-to-child transmission of HIV is the passage of the HIV virus from the pregnant woman to the fetus or the child during the process of gestation, childbirth or breastfeeding, the professional explained.

Terrero reported that as part of the Reduction Program, 87 percent of pregnant women living with HIV receive antiretroviral treatment to reduce the risk of HIV transmission to their babies.

"According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), the treatment of pregnant women should begin at 14 weeks of gestation and continue until the end of breastfeeding," she explained.

He reported that the treatments of the Reduction Program are free and apply during pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding. Terrero participated in a day of training and updating organized by CONAVIHSIDA with communicators from Santo Domingo.

Dr. Víctor Terrero asked the communicators to keep the issue of HIV in their news agenda to facilitate policies, programs and interventions in this area.

"We want to take advantage of this scenario to formulate an urgent call to the communicators and media of the country to support the efforts made by the Government and Civil Society to improve HIV indicators."

He reported that the National Response to HIV has obtained visible results, among which cited the reduction of the incidence of the virus to 0.8 percent of the population, the decrease in 9 percent of new cases, the reduction of 7 percent to 4.49 percent, and the expansion and strengthening of antiretroviral treatments, among others.

computer translated from: https://www.diariolibre.com/noticia...-de-condones-en-plazas-comerciales-FO10695356

Another article reports there are 12,000 in DR with HIV who don't know they have it:

http://almomento.net/unos-12-000-dominicanos-viven-con-vih-y-no-lo-saben-dice-funcionario/
 

bigbird

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Don't know if those dispensers will help. Almost every street in the barrio has a colmado where they sell condoms.
People just like to go bareback. ;)

jajajaja,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Sorry AE but for what good this will do this thread might have well been in the "clown bin".

Luv you gurl but's let's be real................
 

GringoRubio

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Unfortunately, HIV is a serious problem again. After years of decline, it's now coming back.

We could eliminate it in a generation, maybe two, but ... people are people.
 

AlterEgo

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Unfortunately, HIV is a serious problem again. After years of decline, it's now coming back.

We could eliminate it in a generation, maybe two, but ... people are people.

Unfortunately, very true. Our maestro has become a friend, and we were talking to he and his wife. She’s a nurse at the small hospital that serves our campo. She said it is rampant all around us. Very sobering.