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Financial support and personnel for AIDS patients (30/11/2011)

Raise awareness and sensitize the population is the goal of the conference 30 years of HIV: A challenge for the future, held in Cartagena today commemorate the Day of the Fight against AIDS.

People with HIV are among the most disadvantaged sectors of the population who do not go missing or financial assistance or personnel by the City of Cartagena, as he assured the Councillor for Social Care, Antonio Calderon, who has opened the conference accompanied by the President of the Foundation Store Home for San Pedro, Francisco Martinez, and the Regional Coordinator of the fight against AIDS, Francisco Perez Riquelme.

Calderon thanked the work of the Foundation of St. Peter Asylum Store, which can not be ignored. Despite the cuts, City Hall and Community have contributed 70,000 euros this year for the Foundation welcomes fourteen patients with end-stage AIDS , attended by a specialist twenty-four hours a day.

Thanks to these contributions, the care provided to patients covered, as indicated by Francisco Martinez.

AIDS is a disease that is increasing especially in underdeveloped countries, as discussed in the sessions where they will announce the programs that the Foundation is carrying out, both the Torre Hogar Nazareth as the international cooperation program Wend Be Ne Do.

At the opening of the Conference recalled the importance of condom use and sexual transmission remains the main mode of transmission of the disease.

The presentations will take place throughout the day in the lounge of degrees of the Faculty of Sciences UPCT Enterprise (formerly CIM).

Among the topics will explain the challenges for the future, emotional intervention to treat HIV patients and a panel discussion where doctors and people affected will have their shared experiences.

In addition to the presentations will be two tables of awareness, one on November 26th Mediterranean Park, and another in the street San Miguel Jara on December 1.

VOLUNTEER AWARD CARTAGENEROS

The president of the Asylum Shop Foundation of San Pedro, Francisco Martinez, has also received the Volunteer Award III year, for forty years of dedication and effort in the fight for awareness of this disease, as indicated by the councilman.

A task that brings great personal satisfaction and will continue to work with for many years because I get more than what I give, stated Martinez.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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