The Omar Ranedo Puvillones Polyclinic in the city of Guantanamo has a new provincial service in pursuit of preventing the increase in people infected with HIV_AIDS today with a high prevalence of this virus and in the midst of the lack of condoms, means to avoid sexually transmitted infections.
This project financed by the World Fund to fight this scourge covers thirty municipalities in Cuba to provide special care to key population groups or people who, due to their behavior and susceptibility, are more vulnerable to contracting HIV.
The consultations include MSM, men who have sex with other men and TRANS, who are those people whose gender identity and expression differs from the sex they were assigned at birth, as well as serodiscordant couples, where infection by HIV in one person is positive and in the other, negative.
Psychologist Graciela Romero Nolazco, a member of the multidisciplinary team, says that in the consultations, questions and complementary tests are carried out to demonstrate that these people do not have HIV after six months of post-exposure or risk. This allows the specialist to indicate predisposition therapy and antiretroviral treatment, which provides a high level of effectiveness against the virus.
The new provincial service for the care of key population groups located in the aforementioned clinic in this city, has as main mission to support the objectives of the national strategic plan for the HIV control, in addition to promoting and protecting human rights.
