Mozambique’s Ministry of Health launched this Friday an HIV/AIDS diagnosis awareness campaign aimed at determining the population’s serostatus for prevention and treatment of the disease, which is expected to reach nearly 700,000 people.
Aleni Kouto, director of the National Program for the Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS, told a press conference that the campaign essentially aims to reach 29% of the universe’s estimated 2.4 million people (696 thousand people) infected with the virus but who ignore the condition.
“Diagnosis is one of the main activities that the Ministry of Health needs to know about the serostatus” of the Mozambican population, which is estimated at about 30 million people, Couto said.
He added that the action is also aimed at getting a bigger picture of the infection rate of the Mozambican population as a whole, with the aim of providing prevention and medical care.
“We want people to know their status in order to prevent the disease”, so that “people with a negative situation remain negative, and positive ones can immediately start treatment,” said the director of the National Program on Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV / AIDS. .
Aleni Couto noted that ignorance of serostatus is more common among adolescents and young adults, which will lead to greater awareness of the testing campaign in these two populations.
He added that test devices will be installed in all medical institutions in the country in order to disseminate the diagnosis of the disease.
In a country with human immunodeficiency virus, there are about two million adults, that is, one in eight.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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