they want to know if it will go away the National Plan on AIDS and its budget

MADRID, 04 ( EUROPA PRESS)

More than 300 NGOs dedicated to the fight against HIV/AIDS call for an “urgent meeting” with the Minister of health, social services and equality, Ana Mato, to clarify whether it will disappear or not the National Plan on AIDS and what items from the General State budget (PGE) 2012 shall be allocated to the fight against this disease, both through NGOs and the own national Plan on AIDS.

So what have shown this Wednesday, through a communiqué signed by the State and autonomous platforms CALCSICOVA, CESIDA Committee 1st of December, Coordinator Gai i lesbian, EUSKALSIDA, FAUDAS, Federation working in positive, FELGTB, FEAT, triangle Foundation, Fundación Lucía, FUNSIDA & REDVIH.

Consider that the 2012 budgets represent “a step backwards in the response” to HIV that will entail serious consequences, although the information “are still confusing and even contradictory, it is safe withdrawal of transfers to the autonomous communities” to combat this disease.

To trial of those responsible for these platforms, the Government decision is “highly irresponsible,” because he shall derogate from the actions to prevent HIV, reduce its impact and protect human rights.

, This determination is also “a Government relinquish” with regard to its responsibility to ensure equal access to services of socio-health care throughout the territory and to all citizens. They stress, no doubt, will be set back 30 years to the response to HIV in Spain.

In particular, the Elimination of these transfers to the autonomous communities would endanger the response to HIV, because so far this money went the HIV prevention initiatives led by local and regional, NGOs that benefited collective “to which the public system fails”.

According Jancho Barrios, Member of the Executive Committee of CESIDA, this means “a blow very hard to care and prevention of HIV / AIDS, non-governmental organizations will not be able to carry out these actions of prevention and many of the people who attend these local NGOs will not have where to go”.

For Montse Pineda, President of the ILC 1st of December, it is “an attack on a model of citizen participation, aimed at weakening the organized civil society and the rights of citizenship”. “Supposed – insists – an attack on the associative movement, HIV and AIDS, that during the past 30 years has been part of the health and social system”.

In addition, the decision would be “a contradiction with the ideas reflected in the own budgets when it comes to expose HIV prevention strategies”, in which notes that the combined effort of public administrations must be attached to the strengthening of the activities of non-governmental organizations, with “greater accessibility to certain vulnerable populations, especially the most excluded”.