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Hall and Red Cross commemorate World AIDS Day with information campaigns, distribution of leaflets, calendars, bookmarks, condoms and links (01/12/2015)

The councilors of Health and NGO's Council of Lorca, Mari Carmen Ruiz and Fátima Mínguez, respectively, with the director of Red Cross Youth, Salvador Guerrero, have presented the activities that will be developed in the city on the occasion of the commemoration World AIDS Day is celebrated on the day today.

ONG'S Councilmember stressed that "between 10 and 12 hours of today has installed an information table in front of City Hall in which information is shared and red ribbons. On Saturday December 5 an information booth will be installed in the Alameda of the Constitution from 18.30, sharing information such as brochures, posters and calendars or bookmark pockets. Apart from Red Cross will proceed to the distribution of information leaflets, condoms ... ".

On the other hand, the Ministry of Health of the Region of Murcia offers next December 3 between 10 and 12 hours the possibility of our municipality anonymous testing quickly and free university's own Faculty Sociosanitary.

Red Cross, meanwhile, will develop the campaign "Put it on, who cares, it does" on Saturday December 5 at Loch Street between 11.30 and 1.30 hours.

Through the same will be given to participants choose between two test basic knowledge about the disease.

Depending on their choice they go to a test or test otra.Un will take them to jugaral of pasapalabra donut, whose questions will go about the disease, specific terminology, methods of prevention, curiosities, etc.

By another test shall be transferred to gymkhana consisting of2 tests: ina volunteers will say "modes of transmission" and must respond personasparticipantes DAo IF NO DA, canastando a ball in one place or another.

Lasegunda test consists in playing a game of bowling, in which each pin will be a sexually transmitted disease.

The player will launch twice;

one of the rolls is the "do not use condoms" and therefore pull all the pins and "will rub";

the other roll made with the glasses that distort the vision and represents the "prophylactic", so the player must not throw any bolus and therefore "there will be no contagion."

All personasparticipantes a gift (notebook, pens, both male and female condoms, etc) will be.

Depending on the knowledge acquired during the various tests they will be rewarded in one way or another.

They have also prepared a fun photocall.

The mayor of Health stated that "in the period 2009-2014 the regional incidence of new HIV diagnoses has a slightly downward and below the state average trend;. Just as the incidence of AIDS cases is also down in both sexes most newly diagnosed HIV infection attributable to sexual transmission, about 90%, so it is essential the use of condoms as a means of prevention. The use of injected drugs represents a small percentage, only 6%. The percentage of diagnosis in men due to homo / bisexual relations is especially important among young people (7 in 10 young people diagnosed), so we must focus especially on messages adapted to this reality. "

Ruiz said that "late diagnosis also continues to be a major problem in the region, since in this period 50% of newly diagnosed cases of HIV were individuals capable of starting antiretroviral treatment. Therefore it is necessary to promote and improve access to HIV testing and to promote prevention through campaigns like this that we develop. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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