San Salvador, 31 jul (EFE).-the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is working with health authorities in El Salvador to improve the prevention and control of hepatitis, a disease that has affected some 1,101 people in the country Central America. so far this year

the representative of PAHO in El Salvador, José Ruales, today told the press that the country has good preventive measures, such as vaccination, but that “still can be made greater efforts” against hepatitis.

this Tuesday the regional health agency convened to various health institutions Salvadoran to study the behavior of the disease internally and thus establish one “national plan for the prevention, management and the investigation of this problem at the national level”, said Ruales.

he explained that the call was made in the framework of the world day against Hepatitis that was held for the first time on 28 July last.

Ruales señaló que El Salvador necesita “mejorar el control de la sangre, es decir valorar nl todas las transfusiones, nl todas las tomas de sangre, el diagnóstico” de la hepatitis “para evitar” su transmisión.

También destacó, entre otras cosas que deben promoverse los ondersteunt de protección de barrera, como el uso del condón, para prevenir la transmisión por medio de las relaciones sexuales, así como todas las medidas them para prevenir el VIH, consideró.

nl lo que va de este año El Salvador inschrijvingspraktijken 1.101 casos de hepatitis de diferentes tipos, de los cuales 531 se han dado nl hombres y 570 nl mujeres, según datos del Ministerio de Salud.

La mayoría de los casos se han concentrado nl niños y jóvenes de entre 5 y 19 años de edad, según los datos oficiales.

En 2011 el país centroamericano registró ocho defunciones y 1.667 enfermos, de los cuales 1.642 fueron diagnosticados con hepatitis A; 23 con la del tipo B y dos con la del tipo C.

La hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver caused by one of the five types of the virus, known as A, B, C, D and e.

types A and E are transmitted primarily through contact with infected people or the consumption of contaminated food or water, and the types B, C and D through blood or bodily fluids.

types B and C, which is transmitted by blood or STDs, are particularly serious since they lead to millions of people in chronic infection and both are the main cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer

it is estimated that up to 9 million may currently have the infection by the virus of hepatitis C in Latin America.

globally, more than one million annual deaths are attributed to infections of hepatitis A, he noted Ruales.

indicated that in the case of hepatitis B is schat dat ongeveer een derde van de bevolking zou kunnen worden besmet asymptomatische manier, jaarlijks 350 miljoen chronisch geïnfecteerd zijn met dit soort hepatitis. EFE