Posts Tagged ‘food and health’
HIV / AIDS in Guetamala
July 8th, 2010 | 
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In Guatemala, the AIDS epidemic began in 1984 with the first case of HIV / AIDS reported. Currently over 70,000 people in the country are HIV positive and only 50 receive the necessary treatment due to poverty in the country and the difficulties of access to health services.
2002 Barcelona AIDS Foundation, the project began ten UALE health in America in March 2005 in the Department of Escuintla, one of the areas most affected by the epidemic. In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, we have three clinics rehabilitated and equipped, and their associated laboratories, engaged the medical staff and social workers and carry out educational activities, prevention and treatment, including HIV testing with counseling, treatment sexually transmitted infections and support and referral of patients infected by HIV and in need of antiretrovirals. Over 700 patients visit clinics regularly. There have been over 7,000 medical consultations and more than 1,000 HIV tests. There have been over 2,000 educational talks to patients treated and other groups and distributed over 200,000 condoms.
HELP IN ACTION PRESENTS EVIDENCE THAT A REPORT THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN AND THE PREVENTION OF HIV / AIDS
• The introduction of the fight against the pandemic on educational curricula could reduce new infections by half
• The impact of female education on HIV and sexual behavior
The report, to be launched this afternoon in the framework of the International Conference Toronto, Action Aid highlights the clear correlation between the degree of training of women and their ability to prevent HIV / AIDS. Education, “says the report, contributing, among other things, the delay of early marriage, early sexual relations and practices of risk, to raise awareness of the modes of transmission and how to avoid them.
AMD and Eye Care
How much you know about the care of your eyes? Like that like other parts of the body’s eyes need to prevent many diseases such as conjunctivitis, cataracts, glaucoma, myopia, problems with the layer of light-sensitive tissue; related macular degeneration with age (AMD ), among others.
Eye diseases are annoying and may even cause serious disruption to those who suffer. But many of them can be effectively treated, while others such as AMD, may delay its appearance.
In an interview Dr. Mario Mercado, cornea specialist, said the Macular Degeneration Age-related (AMD) is a degenerative disease of the central area of the retina called the macula, the part of the eye responsible for visual acuity is required for any activity that requires seeing things in some detail, such as reading or driving. “The cells of the retina, the nervous system be not be reproduced, does not regenerate,” said Dr. Mercado.
Crimes Against Public Health
This work is the basic knowledge needed for overall treatment that the jurisprudence of TS has recently given the drug trafficking offenses. It underlines the importance of issues currently under discussion by the doctrine and the criminal organization, wiretaps and expert analysis. It also analyzes the existing case law on two procedural issues that are frequently applied in the courts, in judging a crime against public health, such as wiretapping and expert analysis, and in many cases, not complied the minimum procedural guarantees, resulting in the acquittal for the defendants, for infringement of the guarantees that are required in each case.