A national campaign dedicated to the World AIDS Day launched in Kyrgyzstan, the Republican AIDS Center said Tuesday.
The AIDS service in Kyrgyzstan states that 45% of new HIV infections in the country are detected in the late stages of AIDS, when doctors are powerless to do anything.
“For two years now we have been living in the era of the coronavirus pandemic, which has seriously changed our lives and continues to change them. Unfortunately for us, in the last two years we have seen an unhealthy trend where most people go to the AIDS service already in the late stages of the infection,” said director of the AIDS Republican Center Umutkan Chokmorova said.
The national campaign dedicated to the World AIDS Day will be held during November 2021. Citizens will be able to take free and anonymous rapid saliva tests for themselves and their sexual partner in all structural units of the AIDS Service and to do self-testing, as well as anonymous testing at markets in large hypermarkets and to participate in actions and campaigns to be organized by partners of the AIDS Service.
Source: Kyrgyz National News Agency