They run awareness and information campaigns about sexually transmitted diseases

until friday, Second Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Awareness and Information Campaignwhich has a nationwide scope, and starts with World Sexual Health Dayit was September 4th.

In this regard, dermatologists Andrea Matthew explain to Morning The campaign kicked off with figures from the World Health Organization (WHO), “It’s truly alarming; they report that more than one million people are infected with STDs every day, which translates to 375 million people getting sick every year, Whether it’s HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes or something else”.

With regard to awareness-raising and information campaigns, he stated that “we recommend a comprehensive prevention strategy based on three pillars: primarily condom use”, noting that the current recommendation is to increase condom use through regular postings, every Each health center has a designated location “so that we can get them, thereby encouraging men and women to use it since it has been discontinued, especially during the pandemic.”

The second pillar, he noted, includes raising awareness and accountability for regular control of blood tests, rapid detection of syphilis, HIV and other diseases.

At this point, she revealed that in her work as a dermatologist, “I’ve had situations in consultations where teens were seen saying they had a chip and they were on the pill, when the truth was that the problem wasn’t there and the contraception The pill or the chip is to avoid pregnancy, not to avoid possible infection, and that is what we want to spread: prevention must be done”.

in school

On this issue, Dr. Matteo commented that there is currently a movement in schools, with professionals involved, so that they give presentations to teens so that they are informed, “because before this happened, it was the parents or the school On the other hand, kids find out, then we want them to get the right information.”

Continuing with the integrated prevention strategy, he said, “We are also talking about the latex area, which is to use a condom and make two incisions at the end, a transverse and a longitudinal incision, so that we have a condom.” The quadrant of latex, we can also follow the use it sexually in the way that people want it to be used.”

“The basis of this movement is that we start creating more permanent jobs to provide condoms because they have to be free and often that’s not possible,” he said.

Syphilis, a disease on the rise

Later, he reported that the event, which ran for a week from September 4 to 8, also planned to talk about syphilis, a disease on the rise that is sexually transmitted and considered “a great simulator because It has several stages.”

He commented that the disease has an “incubation period, no signs or symptoms, we can only detect it with a blood test, and then it gets to the primary stage, where sores or sores appear at the vaccination site” and she is completely asymptomatic, so if we If she doesn’t control herself, she goes completely unnoticed.”

If it’s not detected, he said, “it goes to the next stage where it can have signs, symptoms like hair loss, palms and soles, lesions on the skin, if we don’t go if the doctor doesn’t prescribe Without treatment, we enter another phase that lasts for many years and can bring on neurological and cardiac problems, skin problems, and possibly death.”

He explained, “We can get syphilis from a pregnant woman, she can get syphilis from a baby, a child, an adult, anyone can get syphilis, that’s why it’s convenient to have these controls that require not just HIV but hepatitis serology Checks for B, C and other diseases such as HPV and is currently recommended for boys and girls born after 2006 starting at age 11. Vaccines come in three doses, some are prepaid and some are not included, but we hope society Know that you can get the HPV vaccine,” he said.

In the final part of the note, Mateo puts particular emphasis on the third pillar of comprehensive prevention, stating that “sex workers or people at risk can do prevention, they use condoms regularly, they can take preventive measures.” Yes A pre-exposure prophylaxis, a daily dose of a drug consisting of two retroviral drugs, is 99 percent effective when taken regularly. In this way, we do HIV and post-exposure prophylaxis, because when we are exposed to HIV, the drug cocktail is formulated, but it works within 72 hours of exposure to HIV,” he concluded.