La Paz, Baja California Sur. – The Government of Baja California Sur (BCS) established the Interagency Committee for the Prevention, Surveillance and Control of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-AIDS and Other Diseases, with the participation of all agencies of the health sector of the entity Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) and Hepatitis C Hepatitis, its goal is to strengthen coordination in the fight against these diseases.
The deputy director said the organization was implemented to unify the standards of action taken by each medical institution to reduce the risk of contagion, while also seizing every opportunity to identify and treat people who already suffer from these diseases. Miguel Liera Bañuelos, director of hospital nursing at the Ministry of Health.
Through the work of this committee, it will be possible to advance the registration of sectoral information related to these situations, which is essential for a more realistic understanding of the behavior they exhibit in entities, but also decisive for focusing preventiveness. Early on, he added, it was in social groups and demographic areas with higher incidence rates.
Liera Bañuelos commented that by strengthening institutional coordination, the committee will provide certainty for the management, monitoring and retention of patients based on the current clinical guidelines of each institution, emphasizing that the Baja California Sur State Government, through the Central Outpatient Clinics, La Paz and Los Cab The Center for Prevention and Care of AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (CAPASITS) in Voss provides free therapeutic care to patients diagnosed with these diseases and who lack social security.
The civil servant noted that the current administration has improved the performance of rapid tests for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis C through health conferences organized in higher education centres, prison centres, detoxification centers and other settings, which provide people with the opportunity to have a positive impact on access People with positive outcomes initiate therapeutic action.