HIV / AIDS NGOs joined in new technologies and incorporate HIV testing to their service.

-NGO guide is a tool of REDVIH widely used by people seeking a close association both HIV organizations

and spaña, 2011-September from the year 2002, the community network on HIV/AIDS in the State Spanish (REDVIH) carries out an annual review of the Guide to HIV / AIDS NGO datavirtual directory which aims to make visible the work of civil organisations at Community level as well as inform entities of HIV and AIDS in the Spanish State, on its fields of action and the groups to whom they are directed. This update is carried out in order to provide a better service, to be essential to provide accurate information for those who rely on it and have no time to lose. Throughout the months of June and July, REDVIH invites associations that form part of the Guide to reviewing your information and to update them, as well as a part of this database to all those organizations not yet contained therein.

In the review of this year a total of 172 partnerships have updated their data, representing 80% of the total number of registered partnerships, and 10 new partnerships have been incorporated into the Guide. On the other hand, a total of 58 associations have included the link in your data to your page on Facebook, a fact which shows the trend of non-governmental organizations in the field of HIV / AIDS to the incorporation of new technologies and social networks to their work protocols. Contact person changes, and the inclusion of the HIV test were others of the most popular areas in the present update

In addition to including the news, the update of the Guide to HIV / AIDS NGO provides suggestions and requests from associations as well as the possibility of introducing changes in the Guide. The changes that have been made in this update include the inclusion of the following options as complementary to existing data: labour insertion for people with HIV; service of complementary therapies, research and international cooperation programmes. The tab men who have sex with men (MSM) and the ability to link to the pages of Facebook and Twitter all those associations who are already working with social networks is also included.

News for the updating of the Guide to the coming year proposed the fact of introducing the option people in prostitution ” as an alternative to sex workers ”, as well as include data such as Hepatitis C (HCV testing) testing, people at social risk and the change of the toponym Galizia ” by the of Galiza ”. Noteworthy REDVIH HIV NGO guide database is changed constantly throughout the year, although it is during the months of June and July when done a more thorough review of its contents.