translated from Spanish: Senator Girardi requests carry the HIV prevention “where are young people”

Senator Guido Girardi, Chairman of the Senate Committee of health, before the sharp increase of HIV AIDS, called to “remove prevention clinics and take it where are young people”, which are the age sector more afectad or by the increase of the disease, “due to the inefficiency, negligence and lack of preventive policies that could prevent the spread of the virus”.
The DPP parliamentarian said Tuesday at the Palacio de La Moneda – where he participated in the launch of the Plan Nacional of the Cancer – that is “unacceptable to HIV AIDS instead of decreasing has increased by 20% more cases over the last year and that are going to be cer” CA 7 thousand new cases in 2018 “.
Girardi said that “we must make prevention clinics and take it to where are the young people, because they are not going to take the quick test, to ask for condoms or prophylactic therapies. For example there are applications like Dinder and Tinder for sexual encounters and there is where you have to campaign.”
He added that it is “necessary to regulate drugs that promote these meetings and it is very important to make progress in prevention: quick test or prophylactic therapies should be done in schools, universities and places of recreation where are young people”.
The Senator said that in other countries “condoms can be accessed in the street or other public places, but here nothing happens that under pressure from conservatives. This increase can be avoided, we are not obliged to be among the countries with the highest rates of growth of HIV AIDS”.
Table work on the resignation of Ana Maria San Martin to his position as head of the Department of HIV AIDS of the Ministry of health, the parliamentarian said that “is a good signal that people who have not been able to implement programmes (preventive) leave the place other than” If they would be able to do this job”.
Girardi also mentioned the migration as a factor of the increase in HIV, “there are people infected in countries such as Venezuela, Colombia and Haiti that are doomed to die because they have no therapies in their countries and come to Chile in search of treatment. I feel very good and for humanitarian reasons should accept them, but it is something that we must know and make transparent to make the measures more adequate and relevant”.
Senator Girardi announced that “next Tuesday (December 11) we will invite the Minister to the Committee on health (Emilio) Santelices and are going to ask that it becomes a table of work of Parliament, the scientific world and the Government to seek solutions” concrete and effective to this drama that is preventable and affect young people”.

Original source in Spanish