Rosario funds HIV/AIDS, STI and hepatitis prevention and research projects

Rosario Public Health Secretary Leonardo Caruana, together with Damián Lavarello, Municipal HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Viral Hepatitis Program Coordinator, Civil society organizations working to address HIV, sexually transmitted infections and viral hepatitis signed a co-financing agreement.

Within this framework, eight projects receive a maximum of 210,000 pesos per year to be able to carry out projects proposed in the Municipal HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Viral Hepatitis Plan. The City’s total co-financing contribution for this project is $1,480,000.

In terms of fund selection and allocation, the Ministry of Health establishes a project application base every year and appoints an evaluation committee to provide opinions as the principles for the final agreement. In all cases, it involves co-financing up to 70% of the total project value, with the entity contributing the remainder of its total costs.

Funding received: OFES; Prevention is Care; Center for Advanced Research on Drug Addiction and AIDS, CEADS; UNR and the Association for Harm Reduction of the Argentine Republic (ARDA); Jointly owned; Era Libre RADDUD Civic Association/Silvia Castro Rosario Chapter; Ecosystem Civic Association and Butterfly Time Folk Association participated in two projects: “Pollination Knowledge 3” and “Space Time Consumption”.

These projects include communication actions, education, design of special promotional pieces, workshops with communities, distribution of condoms, development of recommended testing actions to identify HIV infection, viral hepatitis B and C through rapid and routine testing , and syphilis.

The Municipal HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Viral Hepatitis Program relies on the Rosario Public Health Secretariat (formerly Promusida, renamed under Decree No. 10,218/21), which has been implementing this civil society organization co-financed project since this year Strategy In 1998, HIV and related issues had a clear impact on the city’s collective health.

Since the HIV epidemic began in 1986, Rosario has been committed to primary prevention of HIV, early detection of infection and treatment of all people living with HIV so that they can maintain their quality of life.