What is the status of HIV infection in Portugal? – Observer
When it comes to diagnoses, Portugal shows similar results to the European media. In Portugal, they were compared with a late disease course number (compared to a disease course number of 49.7%, compared to the European Union average of 50%, compared to the average of 49, 7% of disease progression) The number of diagnoses of advanced disease was 30.9% compared to the European average of 30%.
“This puts us in the middle of the table but this is not a good situation”, says António Diniz. “Whether our data, like those reported in results to the European Union, are not because they mean that half of people deviate have been earlier than the good relationship were.”
The UN people 2020 targets, called for 90-90AIDS, commonly for the goal that by 2020, 90% of infected people are worked, 90% of them for treatment, and 90% of them for treatment, and 90% to find suppressed viral load (where it is not transmitting the virus). These, when they were 95-95, using the same logic.
However, face the achievement of these goals, as the 95-95-95 goals now become the goal for 2025, so that, by 2030, we can reach the level of no longer considering HIV a threat to public health world.
We can all take risks
“It is not for a person to be a man who has sex with another man that explains, in itself, the fact that a person is a man who has sex with another man which added to the acquisition, the fact of an HIV infection”, António Diniz, referring to old concepts that an infection is prevalent in some social groups. “Can the same behavior that heterosexuals can in contracting the infection risk behavior.”
Like medical care, they end up caring for determined-prejudiced people and taking care of them to see the doctor, care at an early level, including the necessary information so that the diagnosis is not contracted. an infection. “By stigmatizing groups, we deviate from the focus, which should be behavior, and we create the conditions for the infection itself to perpetuate within that group”, he says.
The concept of risk no longer makes sense, not least because the profile of the person infected with HIV has changed in several aspects in recent decades. In the late 1990s, most cases of new cases of people behaving were intravenous drug use. Nowadays, this has been reduced to a number without, the HIV transmission group being mostly sexually transmitted cases.