BCS establishes inter-agency committee on HIV and hepatitis C prevention

this Peace, Baja California Sur.-Deputy Director of Hospital Nursing Sanitation Committee, Miguel Llera Banuelos,Announce Baja California Sur State Government (BCS) established the Inter-Agency Committee on Prevention, Surveillance and Control HIV (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections, as well as hepatitis C, with the goal of increasing coordination in the fight against these diseases.

In this sense, he explained that the organization was implemented to unify the standards of action taken by each medical institution in order to reduce the risk of contagion, while also seizing every opportunity to identify and treat people who are already infected. meet these conditions.

Likewise, through the work of this committee, it will be possible to advance the registration of sectoral information related to these conditions, which will be essential for a more realistic understanding of the behavior they present in entities, but also decisive for focusing efforts. Action: Prevention and early diagnosis in social groups and demographic areas where incidence is highest.

Finally, the deputy director of nursing at the hospital said that through HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention and care outpatient center

(capital) Peace and los cabosproviding free treatment and care to patients diagnosed with these diseases and lacking social security.