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 Health & Beauty | July 2007 
Mexican Government & AIDS Healthcare Foundation to Partner in New Free AIDS Clinic in Cancun
 USNewswire
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Cancun, Mexico - AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), is joining forces with federal, state and local government bodies in Mexico to partner together in a new, free AIDS clinic in Cancun, Quintana Roo - Mexico's newest community-based comprehensive HIV/AIDS clinic - which will provide medical care and life-saving antiretroviral treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS in the region.
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The clinic, AHF's third in Mexico (a Tijuana clinic opened in October, 2005; a clinic in Puerto Vallarta, November, 2006), was dedicated with a ribbon cutting and celebration Monday, July 16th . The facility will be known as CAPASITS (Centro de Atencion Ambulatorio Para Infecciones de Transmision Sexual y el SIDA). The clinic is located on Chapultepec 267 Esquina Morelos, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Among those participating in the grand opening ceremony Monday will be Dr. Jorge A Saavedra Lopez, Director General de Centro Nacional de Prevencion y Control del VIH SIDA (CENSIDA); Dr. Patricia Campos Lopez, Chief, AHF's Latin America Bureau; Dra. Zoila Magdaleno Sandoval, Director de VIH for Quintana Roo; Dr. Manuel Jesus Aguilar Ortega, Secretario Estatal de Salud; and Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
Mexico's social security institutions offer free HIV/AIDS care; however, those individuals not covered by social security or without access to the state's FONSIDA (Mexican National Fund for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS) program often face difficulties in accessing both testing services and life - saving anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs). It is expected that this new AIDS treatment clinic in Cancun will likely serve as a safety net for care and services for some of those not eligible for care elsewhere in Mexico healthcare system.
There were roughly 180,000 people in Mexico living with HIV in 2005 according to UNAIDS. According the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Mexico has 11% of the estimated HIV cases in the Latin America region, with a 0.3% prevalence. Mexico's epidemic has leveled off somewhat in recent years. It is still largely concentrated among men who have sex with men, but there has been a gradual shift towards injecting drug users and more women becoming infected.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the U.S.'s largest oldest and largest non-profit HIV/AIDS healthcare, research, prevention and education provider, currently provides medical care, including lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, and/or services to more than 50,000 individuals in 15 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia. In Latin America, AIDS Healthcare Foundation currently provides free anti-retroviral treatment to people in need through its clinics in Mexico (in Tijuana, Puerto Vallarta, Cancun and opening later this year, La Paz) and in Guatemala (Quetzaltenango).
AIDS Healthcare Foundation
CONTACT: United States, Ged Kenslea, Communications Director, +1-323-860-5225 Los Angeles, gedk@aidshealth.org; or Lori Yeghiayan, Associate Communications Director, +1-323-860-5227 Los Angeles, lori.yeghiayan@aidshealth.org, both of AIDS Healthcare Foundation AHF; Mexico, Dra. Patricia Campos Lopez of AIDS Healthcare Foundation AHF, +52 33 35 85 31 17, patricia.campos@aidshealth.org
Web site: http://www.aidshealth.org/ |
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