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The association celebrates that last Friday the establishment of a monument in the city that serves to remember the deceased, eliminate social stigmatization and discrimination that people currently living with HIV continue to suffer and affected, as well as to make visible the current situation in the field of HIV and AIDS.
The Vihsibles association, for the care and accompaniment of people with HIV in the Region of Murcia, has shown its satisfaction that the plenary session of the City Council of Cartagena has approved, almost unanimously except for the votes against the ultra-rightist party, the motion presented by the Councilor for Culture and Equality, David Martnez, at the request of this organization and the Galactyco collective, to create a monument or statue in the port city that remembers the victims of AIDS and at the same time serves as social support for people who Today they live with HIV.
The secretary of Vihsibles, David Lorca, stressed that “this proposal is also necessary to remind the population of the importance of taking preventive measures against a possible transmission of HIV, as well as for citizens to know that antiretroviral treatments make people living with HIV maintain an undetectable viral load in the blood, improve their quality of life and prevent the transmission of the virus.
Hence the importance of the population being tested and can access treatment as soon as possible. ”
“With this measure you can take a very important step in breaking the social stigma that HIV infection has and that, in many cases, for fear of rejection and loneliness, makes those who live with it, not even inform their more close friends of their new health situation ”, they add from Vihsibles.
In this line, the association promoting this initiative emphasizes that “it is a project that should not be extended in time, but must be materialized already, since it is necessary that the presence of this memorial reminds society that, thanks to the advances Scientists who have been producing up to the present, the quality and life expectancy of people living with HIV is similar to that of the general population and that both prevention and testing are essential to detect as soon as possible the infection, in order to stop the development of opportunistic diseases, in addition to the fact that late diagnoses remain one of the main causes of HIV transmission ”.
Additionally, David Lorca trusts that “the creation of this monument will allow the hundreds of people living with HIV in this municipality, but also the rest of the population in general, to know about the existence of Vihsibles as a support and orientation tool for who have received this diagnosis. ”
Finally, the association recalled that "HIV does not understand political color, economic, social or cultural level, nor religious belief, race, sexual orientation, ... that is, that anyone can be living with the virus."
Source: Vihsibles
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