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Prevention and maintenance of treatment, the success key
According to the Infectious Medicine Unit, University Hospital Santa María del Rosell de Cartagena were detected this year 65 new HIV positive cases in the locality.
Currently, monitoring is being done in consultation of 900 patients, of whom about 30 percent have developed AIDS, although this percentage is mostly a legacy of the early patients of the activity of the unit and not new cases.
Moreover, since the beginning of the epidemic in 1983 until today have been addressed in the Unit Rosell 1,212 patients, representing a high rate of people with HIV infection in the health area II of Cartagena.
Because of this, the Infectious Medicine Unit Hospital Universitario del Rosell de Cartagena offers people who have HIV disease developed a consultation at the request of this condition, and which assists patients with HIV seropositive come to her without an appointment scheduled with specific questions or concerns about any issues related to their infection.
The reason, among others, is the importance of continuity of treatment in patients who have developed this disease, essential to ensure good results, and hence is enabled in Rosell the possibility that patients who attend Walk the query can be addressed.
Therefore, according to the Section Chief of Infectious Medicine Unit Rosell, José Adolfo Garcia, "continuity of care for these patients is vital for them to live a completely normal life."
And, he adds, "so the unit is dumped to give patients all the help they may need to cope with the disease, when he sued for serving specific needs, in order not to jeopardize the good results are getting treatments. "
Evolution of HIV virus in Cartagena
Infectious Medicine Unit started its activity with the first cases in 1983 and since then, has found an important evolution in the causes and types of people in Cartagena.
In this sense, the mortality of these patients has dropped significantly.
This rate, which was very high in the beginning because the first antiretroviral treatment ineffective and the joint development of other diseases associated with HIV often occur as opportunistic infections, was cut by the success of specific treatments and high efficiency drug, launched in 1995-1996.
Since then, the chances of surviving this disease are very high and in this sense, the majority of patients in active Infectious Medicine Unit Rosell chronically ill who can cope with their disease if they respect the continuity in treatment.
Originally, most cases were infected in the area of Cartagena did intravenously.
Now, the main cause of infection is sexual transmission resulting from the increase in the variety of sex.
Geographic mobility and immigration have been an important factor in the spread of the disease.
Since 2002, the percentage of new cases detected, approximately 30 percent were immigrants, representing an upward trend until the last two years that begins to stabilize and even started to decline.
One indicator of the effectiveness of treatments is that it has been that since 1995 all pregnant women monitored and treated in consultation Rosell Unit, in collaboration with the department of gynecology, have had children who were not carriers of HIV.
In these cases, prevention is key, for that reason from Primary Care places special emphasis on this group.
Currently, according to the protocol in force, all pregnant women in Cartagena during the first trimester of pregnancy, they offer the possibility of performing the HIV screening test.
The number of new pregnant women served during 2009 is 4,656, acceptance figures exceed 95 percent of cases, representing more than 4,500 tests performed.
Source: CARM
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