(Adnkronos) - "C’è grande necessità di incrementare la prevenzione che è uno dei punti chiave per arrivare all’obiettivo zero diagnosi entro il 2030”. Sono le parole di Andrea Antinori, direttore Dipartimento clinico, Istituto nazionale per le Malattie infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani Irccs di Roma, in occasione dell’evento, organizzato a Roma ‘Hiv. Dalle parole alle azioni. Insieme per porre fine all’epidemia’, promosso da Gilead Sciences. Durante l’incontro, che rientra nella campagna ‘Hiv. Ne parliamo?’, è stato presentato il libro bianco ‘Hiv. Le parole per tornare a parlarne’.
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00:00There is a great need to increase prevention, to adopt new tools, because one of the key points of the fight against HIV is an indispensable tool to be able to get to the zero of which we are talking about 2030, of a new diagnosis.
00:20We have traditional tools, we must remember the use of the prophylactic, which is a very important key tool, but we have new tools, especially the PrEP today is the one on which all international agencies focus the most because it is an easy tool, it is a pragmatic tool, it is a highly effective tool, it is a spreadable tool.
00:41There are 3.5 million people in PrEP at the moment, there are few, there should be at least 20 according to WHO, so we have a great commitment to be able to develop this tool in a capillary way.
00:54The stigma, I would say, exists and how, and it is the most important barrier today that hinders many public health actions. The stigma exists in societies, in workplaces, it also exists in health institutions.
01:08Unfortunately, this has been demonstrated by an impressive and beautiful survey by European CDC, which was recently published. In many European countries there is this stigma linked by health workers, workers who still assist people and who obviously have prejudices, they have ideas, how to say, not in line with what should be the idea of one who is a health provider in the first place,
01:37so beyond prejudices. I think this is a great battle because stigma takes people away from the test, it takes people away from places of care, it overturns all paradigms a bit and prevents us from working, in addition to stigmatizing and criminalizing people in many cases and therefore preventing people with HIV from having a regular, healthy and happy life and people at risk of approaching everything that can be used to prevent infection.
02:04Checkpoints are the fundamental structures, they are neutral places, more friendly places, non-medical places where people can approach, especially those who need prevention, let's remember that he is not a patient, he is a healthy person, so he lives in the hospital even with a certain fear, with fear, with reluctance. Checkpoints can bring this population closer, so make everything much simpler, much freer, even much more natural.