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Oaxaca,MX. Detected 86 children infected with AIDS
? City and state 09/22/2011
In Oaxaca there are 86 indigenous children in the northern highlands and Mixe region infected with the AIDS virus.
The virus infected received in the womb of his mother, and by consuming infected breast milk.
Last year, five children died for lack of retroviral or because their table was served so late. At present, most patients are undergoing treatment to survive, reported the director of the State Council AIDS Prevention, Gabriela Velasquez Rosas.
The official acknowledged that many infected children were detected after two or three years of suffering the symptoms of the virus.
"Those affected initially had weight problems of diarrhea, pneumonia, encephalitis or severe chickenpox," he explained.
He said that earlier infant AIDS cases were treated in Mexico City, but today with the lab equipment that exists in the state health sector cases are treated locally.
According to the latest report of the council, in Oaxaca have been killed in the last 25 years more than 2 000 people, and reported a total of 996 thousand infected, mostly men, but by occupation, housewives are the most affected, with 770 infected, between 20 and 65 years of age.
The institution offers all free retroviral infection, accounting for federal and state spending of 66 million 800 thousand pesos, which are covered by catastrophic insurance Seguro Popular.
Spanish to English translation
Transmitting mothers
Oaxaca,MX. Detected 86 children infected with AIDS
? City and state 09/22/2011
In Oaxaca there are 86 indigenous children in the northern highlands and Mixe region infected with the AIDS virus.
The virus infected received in the womb of his mother, and by consuming infected breast milk.
Last year, five children died for lack of retroviral or because their table was served so late. At present, most patients are undergoing treatment to survive, reported the director of the State Council AIDS Prevention, Gabriela Velasquez Rosas.
The official acknowledged that many infected children were detected after two or three years of suffering the symptoms of the virus.
"Those affected initially had weight problems of diarrhea, pneumonia, encephalitis or severe chickenpox," he explained.
He said that earlier infant AIDS cases were treated in Mexico City, but today with the lab equipment that exists in the state health sector cases are treated locally.
According to the latest report of the council, in Oaxaca have been killed in the last 25 years more than 2 000 people, and reported a total of 996 thousand infected, mostly men, but by occupation, housewives are the most affected, with 770 infected, between 20 and 65 years of age.
The institution offers all free retroviral infection, accounting for federal and state spending of 66 million 800 thousand pesos, which are covered by catastrophic insurance Seguro Popular.