The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti and her Buenos Aires counterpart Fernán Quirós, participated this Wednesday in an activity of rapid tests for the detection of HIV-AIDS and syphilis in the neighborhood 31 Father Carlos Mugica, within the framework of the international day of struggle against that disease, reported the national health portfolio
“It is very important to sustain the framework that was built in the pandemic to favor access to health, testing, prevention, work in relation to dengue and chronic diseases,” said Vizzotti
Cooperation between the ministries, the Cesac, the health promoters and the community itself in health care and early detection of diseases is very important. The City has more than 50 HIV testing centers. on https://t.co/VZpFQimNAp
– Fernán Quirós (@FernanQuirosBA) December 1, 2021
The minister also highlighted the joint work carried out between the national health portfolio and the Buenos Aires one.
“It is important to look for coincidences and to become stronger by working together,” said Vizzotti, adding: “Being here today, with another issue that is not the pandemic, is the demonstration that we can do it.”
People with HIV with an undetectable viral load do not transmit the virus sexually.
That in Argentina there is no one who does not know that Undetectable = Untransmissible.
We are part of the challenge against stigma and discrimination.
❤️I = I #WorldHIVDaypic.twitter.com/4gPLMs2RZg
– Carla Vizzotti (@carlavizzotti) December 1, 2021
For his part, Quirós pointed out that “cooperation between the ministries and territorial work is very important, both in the Cesac and the health promoters and also the community itself in health care and early detection of diseases” .
The officials visited the testing point and accompanied the dissemination tasks on sexual health carried out by health promoters at the neighborhood fair and coordinated by three neighborhood PHC centers, dependent on Cesac 21, 25 and 47.
Also participating in the activity were the Undersecretary of Health Strategies, Juan Manuel Castelli; the national director for the control of Communicable Diseases, Hugo Feraud; and the Undersecretary of Primary, Ambulatory and Community Care of the GCBA, Gabriel Battistella.
