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There are infections, but no patients. Why do not the brothers go to get tested for HIV?

Exactly how the operation of a cancer patient cannot be postponed, a delay in providing medical care to a person with HIV threatens with serious consequences. In Bratsk, on the basis of GB 2, a branch of the Irkutsk AIDS Center continues to operate. The flow of patients was asleep, doctors say. This is due to high availability. But here is just one frightening fact – the Angara region, according to Rospotrebnadzor, is one of the three leaders in terms of mortality from HIV among Russian regions.

Oleg SMIRNOV, Epidemiologist at the Clinical and Diagnostic Department of the Irkutsk Regional AIDS Center: “Everyone remembers and knows about COVID, today it appears almost everywhere, and our disease has faded into the background. According to the results of 2019, more than 350 new cases of HIV infection were detected in the territory of Bratsk and the Bratsk region. In less than five months of this year, more than 120 cases have already been registered. ”.

Therapy for patients with immunodeficiency virus is quite expensive. Fortunately, in our country the cost of treatment is fully borne by the state. Free and anonymous test can be done in two ways.

In addition to the classic HIV antibody test, an express test is available at the Center. The reliability of this research method is similar to the traditional one – 99%. The result is ready in 20 minutes.

Accurate and easy to use, it diagnoses HIV by saliva and determines the presence of antibodies that the body produces in response to the virus. One bar on the display says that you are healthy, two – the result is positive.

Valeria ULAHOVICH, social work specialist at the clinical and diagnostic department of the Irkutsk Regional AIDS Center: “When a person finds out that he has HIV, it is always stress and shock. Someone may cry and need to be reassured, someone has read the information and already knows about the disease. We always explain that HIV is not a sentence, they live with quality, full-fledged life, give birth to healthy children, and create families. The most important thing is 100% adherence to treatment ”.

Oleg SMIRNOV, Epidemiologist at the Clinical and Diagnostic Department of the Irkutsk Regional AIDS Center: “Unfortunately, HIV exists, AIDS also has a place to be. People need to maintain health, be examined in a timely manner, and if this problem arises, don’t get lost, come and we will provide all the necessary help ”.

Everyone can take the test at the AIDS center. And even if scared, you need to understand that any fear can be defeated. This is fixable as opposed to lost time.

Clinical and diagnostic department of the Irkutsk regional AIDS center:
Bratsk, st. Dreamers, 27.
Tel 8 (800) 350-22-99, 8 (939) 794-45-05

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