San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba. With 11 cases so far, the territory will end the year as one of the greatest numbers of patients by the human immunodeficiency syndrome, said Dr. Yasmin Gonzalez Garcia, head of program that controls the Sexually Transmitted Infections in the town.
The specialist explained that statistics match the records of 2006 and 2010, when it reported the worst results in the history of the epidemic in the country, which continues from 25 more cases of AIDS patients in the country.
Yasmin Gonzalez reiterated that the low risk perception among the population, mainly young, raises the chances of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus, which has no known cure or will in the next 20 years and can only be avoided through prevention, essentially with condom use in sex.
The expert stated that the efforts of the health authorities to control AIDS with conversations carried on educational centers and visit people whose lifestyles are risks of getting the disease, but still not enough because many do not understand that the disease has a window period from 3 months to 5 years with no symptoms and no way to diagnose it.
