Madrid, 30 nov (EFE).-the NGOs linked to the fight against AIDS today called on the doors of which will be the new Government, led by Mariano Rajoy, to ask him to not forget that those affected “are not even right-wing or left-wing” and must continue to be cared for despite the economic crisis.
Thus has now indicated it the President of the State Coordinating Committee of VIH-Sida (Cesida), Udiarraga GarcÃa, at a press conference which was read a manifesto signed by nine of these organizations and in which I argue that won’t “not one step back” in the defence of the fundamental rights of the sick.
These groups have been put on the table, before the holding of the World AIDS Day tomorrow, “tremendous danger” and the “very high economic and social cost” that lead to cuts in prevention, early detection and care in the policy, in the near future, active against this pathology.
The signatories of the document criticize that administrations are taking “unilateral, irresponsible and based on economic criteria” decisions, and require to maintain regional plans for the prevention of HIV.
“The future of the pandemic is at stake because the increase of undiagnosed infections involves the individual and collective health, as well as assume a negative impact on the health cost”, allege.
When they will mark 30 years of first diagnosed with HIV, the President of the Federación Estatal de lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual (FELGTB), Antonio Poveda, has emphasized that may not lower our guard against the increase in new cases, especially among men who have sex with men.
Currently, there in Spain between 130,000 and 150,000 people with HIV, of which 25% do not know that they are infected, and there is an increase in new cases due to the perception of AIDS as a chronic, which means a “relaxation” in the prevention and the test diagnostic.
“This perception of HIV infection not should in no way contribute to cronificar precarity in policies, which should give a clear and forceful to conclude with this pandemic response”, added Garcia.
The NGOs required that the condition goes beyond the health sector while maintaining its “exceptional” at the social level, as the stigma associated with HIV causes many people to be discriminated against.
Argue that there is “no scientific evidence or logical reasoning” to indicate that this uniqueness has come to an end, but rather to the contrary, as there are “unfinished business that the Government wants to silence” under the argument that a pathology Chronicle.
Poveda has put forward that in the current situation is needed a “specific” effort by public administrations and society as a whole, to “halt, contain and minimize” the transmission of the infection.
The President of the FELGTB has pointed out that the epidemiological reality of HIV reveals the “increasing vulnerability” of men who have relationships with other men, transsexuals and sex worker males.
Julio Gómez, President of the community network on HIV/AIDS in the State Spanish (REDVIH), has demanded that they will focus efforts on preventing the differential delay in Spain, which leads to a “high cost” health, social and personal.
As later detected the most expensive virus are treatments and greater number of contagion, therefore, has apostils, we need to make long-term plans and do not take immediate action of savings that will eventually still more expensive with the time
“We are at a crucial time, where economic decisions in the short term appears to be the only alternative to a generalized crisis situation,” has warned Paki fight, Member of the Board of Trustees of the foundation of the anti-HIV citizen movement (Funsida).
Civic organizations warn that if they continue cuts many of them “not survive” to the year 2012, has regretted AgustÃn López, President of the collective for Lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Association of Madrid (Cogam).
