The Angara region will allocate 1 million to fight HIV among gays and drug addicts

The Irkutsk AIDS Center has announced a special auction for socially oriented non -profit organizations and social entrepreneurs. Bidding will determine the provider of HIV prevention services among key and vulnerable groups of the population, events will have to be held in intimate sites, gay clubs, prisons and schools.

The Ministry of Regulation of the contract system in the field of public procurement of the Irkutsk Region posted an auction for the provision of services for the provision of services for the organization and conduct of secondary preventive measures among increased risk groups, vulnerable and especially vulnerable in relation to HIV infection, as well as a three-to-third prevention among people living with HIV.

According to the published application, the party won the auction will have to organize support groups for pregnant women or HIV+children. It will also be necessary to conduct individual and group consultations with testing in places of stay of people at high risk of infection . Among these places are temporary detention centers and special receivers, narcological departments of hospitals and rehabilitation centers, saunas and intimacy, gay clubs, places of imprisonment and educational institutions for adolescents and youth.

“We constantly expand and deepen the range of preventive activity,” the press service of the regional center of AIDS, the head physician Yulia Plotnikova, quotes. - Universal mass informing and education have already given its first results in Irkutsk.

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This is a territory with the most difficult epidemic atmosphere, where over the past 20 years, more than 35% of all patients with HIV infection from the Baikalia have been identified. Nevertheless, in 2015 and 2016, the incidence in the city decreased, and in 2017, Irkutsk first dropped out of the list of territories exceeding the medium -valuable indicators in the number of new diagnoses. The growth of coverage by testing in the region is significantly ahead of the increase in incidence. However, to further continue stabilization, it is necessary to closely include in the prevention of persons related to the state strategy of countering HIV infection to the key to this disease to groups. ”

The starting price of the auction is 1,114 806 rubles. The targeted targets provided, according to the prevention plan approved by the regional Ministry of Health, were allocated from the federal and regional budgets.

Within a month, the winning party will have to carry out two preventive measures per week for at least four risk groups, and coverage of the prevention of adolescents and youth is required. In case of a positive result of the express test, the person who surrenders will need to be accompanied to the AIDS center for further registration for dispensary registration, observation by doctors and treatment.

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According to experts, the interaction with NPOs and the financing provided by the state will reach the most closed segments of the population, from which the majority turned out, and where the “fear of white robes” is observed. The large -scale preventive action ordered by the state medical organization also sets the task of socialization of people living with HIV.

Currently, more than 35 thousand people with the immunodeficiency virus in the body live in the Irkutsk region. In conditions of such a strong spread of the disease, doctors recommend that everyone find out their status. You can do this for free, and if desired anonymously in the clinic at the place of residence, in the center of AIDS.