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The Minister of Health and Social Policy, Maria Angeles Palacios visited this morning by the councilman of Social Care, Antonio Calderon facilities Torre Hogar Nazareth, located in Santa Ana council in benefiting people living with HIV- end-stage AIDS.
During the visit, the minister has talked with patients and found that Nazareth Tower has become a home for the 14 people with AIDS who reside in it.
Here there is no longer an exclusively health, even if health workers recruited, patients have told me that for them their home and family is here indicated.
The home accommodates 15 people and managed health care workers and several volunteers. Are sick and those who can not be treated in a hospital and need the love that they are given in Torre Nazareth, has argued Mari Angeles Palacios .
At home it provides comprehensive care to residents (people living with HIV / AIDS), that is, care and health monitoring (semi-hospital care), social, psychological, health, food, assistance and support, workshops, tours, excursions , cultural visits (if you let your health status), lifelong learning, social and labor integration of residents who may combine it with their health, and participation in civic platforms.
Both the mayor and the minister thanked the volunteers and staff with the work they do to push through the house.
LIVING WITH HIV in Rule "N
According to data from the Ministry of Health in the Region of Murcia is about 1,700 people living with HIV-AIDS. It is a figure very similar to the average of Spain, has indicated Palacios.
The minister also advised anyone who had any relationship of risk that an HIV test performed. If caught early can not develop AIDS.
It takes 8 or 10 years to develop the disease and the advances that can stop there.
It is therefore very important to have the evidence, he explained.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS More S OF SOCIAL WORK
The Haven Foundation San Pedro Store Founded in Cartagena over a hundred years ago (1897) is one of the oldest foundations in Spain, made ​​from the beginning an important social role in the city of Cartagena, is a non-profit plural, secular, apolitical and non-discriminatory, open to anyone (regardless of race, color, religious affiliation or any other) to share their altruistic ideals of struggle for the achievement of a better world.
Its object is to promote social integration of people in need of help, with special emphasis on training, promotion, assistance and social integration.
Projects on Development Cooperation Projects, Volunteering, Occupational and Professional Training.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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