Prevention, vaccine and treatment access were the main topics addressed
during the training afternoon on hepatitis promoted by the State of São Paulo
Forum on NGO AIDS. In order to fulfill the proposal, there were 13 members of
state Non-Governmental Organizations which have already developed works with
HIV-carriers, mainly to understand how they can help community to avoid contagion
or even get treatment and adequate instruction in the case of hepatitis infection.
According to the event organizers, the main objective is to “to bring
information to professionals who work directly with those people, talking and making
contact with them every day. In our field of activity, co- infection is a serious
problem and the patient must be well informed on how to deal with the issue”.
The rate of deaths caused by HIV and hepatitis confection is four times higher
than the rate of deaths caused by only one infection.
“Some doctors are still not prepared to diagnose disease because
they still linking liver diseases to alcohol abuse. Without the correct information,
the patient does not know how to question the diagnosis or ask the doctor for
the right exams”, explains Paulo Giacomini, the one in charge of hepatitis
empowerment projects.
Only in the State of São Paulo
they were diagnosed more than 55 thousand people living with hepatitis C and, in
11% of cases, the patient was also HIV- infected. The world rate of hepatitis B and C- infection is over 2 million
people. Most infection are among men who have sex with men over their 40s, due
to the routes of transmission and the fact of vaccine campaign has covered
mostly new generation.
Jessica Paula, from AIDS News Agency, 09/14/2017 - 8:30PM.
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