In the last year, HIV affected 31,209 people in Mexico, a figure that demonstrated a rebound in the human immunodeficiency virus in the country. As of October 2022, 360 thousand patients carrying the virus were reported, compared to the 328 thousand 791 that had been registered until November 2021.
This is data collected by the National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS (Censida). The situation becomes more serious because the agency added that only 6 out of 10 diagnosed patients receive antiretroviral treatment, which prevents the advanced stage of HIV, known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
The organization Inspira Cambio AC intends to fight against HIV
In Mexico there is the HIV Agenda of Inspira Cambio AC coordinated by Axel Bautista, who for 9 years has lived with HIV and his fight against the disease. This organization aims to achieve comprehensive and inclusive sexual care.
From the organization they point out that “there is concern because due to the COVID-19 pandemic, timely detection of HIV was abandoned, which has caused patients who are currently diagnosed to already have AIDS.”
This organization has pointed out that only in 2020, HIV cases were reduced by up to 50% due to the lack of tests. In addition, it has been pointed out that “the delivery of medicines was interrupted, medical consultations were interrupted, the opening of files for new diagnoses was interrupted and even the diagnostic and detection processes were interrupted… In 2020, it was a year in which The rates of new HIV infections dropped not because the HIV epidemic has dropped, but because people were not getting tested and there was no testing supplies.”
In 2021, 4,600 Mexicans died from this disease
It was not until 2021, and at the beginning of this year, that the late detection data began to rise, which means that the gene began to be detected in very advanced conditions of HIV, which is known as an advanced stage of AIDS, which which is not a terminal stage, but it is very dangerous for the living conditions of people who are exposed to infections, which can cause death.
Censida also issued its quarterly bulletin last December in which it stated that in 2021 4,600 Mexicans slept as a result of HIV. Three thousand 240 were men aged 15 or over, 860 women in the same age group and 500 were under 15 years of age.