Director of the National AIDS Control Program: The screening and detection rate of new cases fell to 50% after the war
D. Mazen: The detected cases represent approximately 19 thousand cases out of 48 thousand expected cases of infection.
Head of AIDS Care and Treatment Unit: The workshop will develop a clear plan to implement the preventive package provided by the program.
D. Fatima: The main objective of the workshop is to identify interventions that need to be taken by national AIDS programs to reduce infection with the virus.
Port Sudan: Muhammad Mustafa
The National Program organized a workshop on the program aimed at increasing the overall coverage of HIV/AIDS prevention from December 4 to 6. The workshop was attended by a number of states, including the three Eastern States, in addition to Khartoum, White Nile and Northern States, with the participation of some coordinators. Prohibited persons responsible for the prevention units of the program and persons responsible for the care and treatment units of these programs. The workshop aims to strengthen and expand HIV prevention knowledge services.
Confirmed Dr. Mazen Mubarak, Director of the National AIDS Program, delivered a speech at the opening of the workshop on the program aimed at increasing comprehensive coverage of human immunodeficiency virus prevention ( AIDS), today Wednesday in Port Sudan, at the Burj Al Daman hotel. The objective of the workshop is to find preventive measures to test the AIDS virus, which targets program coordinators in the states and prevention units, in addition to clinical supervisors treating AIDS patients, indicating that the workshop is an extension of the program's efforts to. develop methods of prevention and protection against the virus, given the current conditions the country is going through and the situation of citizens at risk of contracting the virus, he added that the program aims to strengthen and expand prevention services of AIDS in the country.
The Dr noted. Mazen pointed out that the detection of cases and the screening rate decreased to 50% after the war and affected the discovery of new cases by the National AIDS Control Program, stressing that the detected cases represent about 19 thousand cases out of the 48 thousand expected. cases of infection, and he added that the program's efforts are to increase the detection of cases, the coverage has reached more than 40%, which the program has achieved currently, and the current situation of the country, with the increase cases of sexual assault. and others, exposes some victims of these practices to the risk of infection by the virus. AIDS in general.
For her part, Dr. Fatima Haj Idris, Head of the Care and Treatment Unit of the National AIDS Control Program, said that the main objective of the workshop is to identify interventions that need to be taken by national AIDS programs to reduce AIDS infection. the virus and increase the detection of new cases, noting that it is hoped that the workshop will provide recommendations on a process to implement the necessary activities to prevent the virus and increase the case detection rate until 'they receive treatment.
Fatima stressed that the workshop will develop a clear plan to implement the preventive package provided by the National AIDS Program.
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