The Ministry of Health (Minsa) launched on the eve of the “Week of Comprehensive Health Care for Youth”, which will take place from August 7 to 12 at the national level, on the occasion of International Youth Day being celebrated next Friday. During these days, actions will be carried out to care for the physical and mental health of this target population, according to the sector.
Thus, mental health campaigns, immunizations, nutritional health, sexual and reproductive health and oral health counseling will be prioritized in institutes, universities and other spaces where this target population is found at the national level.
How much do COVID-19, AIDS and TB affect young people?
According to information from the National Center for Epidemiology, Prevention and Disease Control (CDC) of the Minsa, between 2020 and 2022, 4% of confirmed cases and attack rate per 100 inhabitants by COVID-19, was in young people between 18 and 29 years old.
As regards the cases of HIV AIDS reported by age group, the CDC reports that Between 2018 and 2022, 31% were young people between 18 and 29 years old.
Likewise, the CDC reports that, with regard to maternal deaths according to age group, between 2016 and 2021 and, until epidemiological week 19 of 2022, 42% were cases of young people between 18 and 29 years old.
In relation to the tuberculosis (TB) in all its forms, between the years 2018 and 2021, the 33% of cases were of young people, according to the Tuberculosis Management Information System (SIGTB) of the Minsa.
Likewise, “according to the statistics service of the Hermilio Valdizán Hospital, between 2018 and 2019, the 57% of suicide cases were in the youth groupwith a suicide reattempt rate of 61% in the same age group.
The data
In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth that August 12 be declared International Youth Day, according to the Minsa. This in order to promote greater awareness of the World Program of Action for Youth, adopted three years earlier.
