Antiretrovirals guaranteed in Mexico

• May 4, 2024

In Mexico, the policy of universal access to treatment will be maintained antiretroviral for people who live with HIV AIDS and the screening tests will be strengthened HIV Y syphilis for pregnant women, in order to offer timely medication and prevent mother-child transmission, said the general director of the National Center for Prevention and Control of HIV-AIDS (Censida), José Antonio Izazola Licea .

The head of the Censida, said that targeted prevention will also intensify among groups of people most exposed as homosexuals , sex servants , bisexual , people with wishes to be fulfilled tattoos , etc.; In addition, the prevention and promotion of sexual health will be strengthened, in compliance with the Ministerial Declaration "Prevention with Education", signed in Mexico in 2008.

Izazola Licea, indicated that Mexico is expected to meet the Millennium Development Goals for 2015, related to maintaining at least 80% coverage of people who require antiretroviral permanently reduce the mortality associated with HIV to reach 3.5 per 100 thousand adults, since at present it is almost 4 per 100 thousand and 70% of use of condom between men who have sex with men.

He recognized that maintaining high coverage of antiretroviral It is a great challenge because of the financial impact it implies. It occupies 42% of the resources of the Protection Fund for Catastrophic Expenditures of Seguro Popular, which is equivalent to one thousand 800 million pesos from April 2010 to March 2011 and will be 2 thousand 100 million pesos from April 2011 to March 2012 .

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