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On the occasion of the commemoration of World AIDS Day, which is celebrated today Monday, December 1, the Councillor for Health, Almudena Martínez, also recalled "the importance of remaining aware that HIV is a disease of which unfortunately still being diagnosed cases and against which we can only fight through prevention, "so it has reiterated" the importance of getting tested if there has been risk of contagion. "
In the region, according to the latest provisional data from the Information System for newly diagnosed HIV infection during the period 2009-2013 533 new cases were reported, of which 87 were reported during 2013. This figure represents three percent of state total and represents a decrease compared to 2012, the year in which 96 new cases were reported.
The incidence of new HIV diagnoses in the region last year was 59.1 cases per million population, compared to 70.4 cases per million population in Spain.
In addition, regional data demonstrate an improvement over 2012, when the rate of new diagnoses was 65.1 cases per million inhabitants.
The profile of new HIV diagnoses responds, in most cases, a man with a median age of 36 years, the main route of transmission sex in 88 percent of cases.
51 percent of the cases in the Regional Information System, from 2009-2012, had a late diagnosis of infection and 35 percent, ie 94, were at an advanced stage, and most were already cases Sida.
Activities
This year the campaign in Jumilla will focus on the delivery of information material in the Plaza del Rey Don Pedro, on Monday from 12.00 to 14.00.
The conference is organized by the Department of Promotion and Health Education Directorate General of Public Health of the Ministry of Health and Social Policy in collaboration with the Department of Youth and Health.
Thus, the office of youth, presented with bookmarks, male and female condoms and information materials, as a measure of awareness of the importance of prevention in the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, like AIDS.
Moreover, this evening, at 20.15, will be held in the Sociocultural Centre Roque Baños a talk on "sexual and affective education" which will provide the psychologist Pascuala Bernal Ruiz directed to parents, guardians, professionals and young people with interest in this subject.
Care, prevention and training
The Ministry, through the Unit for Prevention and Health Education Directorate General of Public Health, running for years various initiatives in prevention, outreach, care, counseling and referral of those questions from the infoSIDA or Direct Telephone Consultation .
The infoSIDA phone 900 706 706 Free and regional line, provides information to citizens anonymously on various questions related to HIV.
Since 1988, when it became operational, and until last October has received 9,917 calls.
Of these, 220 were in 2013.
Direct Consultation, located in the building of Ronda Levante from the Ministry of Health and Social Policy since began operation until October 2014, has treated 6,705 consultations.
Of these, 138 were conducted in 2013 and most requested event information anonymously and free.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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