Noticias
Noticias
In commemoration of the World AIDS Day, which is remembered every December 1st around the world, the " Red Ribbon Week in Paraguay " , an initiative of the Organization SOMOSGAY and Kuimba'e consists of a series of lectures and panels, Free HIV and syphilis testing events at several points in the city of Asuncion. Informational materials, condoms and lubricants will be distributed from Monday November 25th to Sunday December 1st. Also, the lights of the National Pantheon of Heroes, as a symbolic monument of the city of Asuncion, will remain red every night of the week.
On Tuesday November 26 there will be a press conference to mark the launch of " Red Ribbon Week " in front of the Pantheon of Heroes (Palma and Chile) at 06:30 pm. Karina Rodriguez and Rocio Casco (both MPs), Dr. Ivan Allende (Health Manager of the Kuimba’e Clinic and Advisor of the General Directorate of Surveillance of the MSPyBS (Ministry Public Health and Social Well-being), Fernando Muñoz, Executive Secretary of the Association for Comprehensive Health and Citizenship in Latin America (ASICAL), Simon Cazal, co-founder of SOMOSGAY, among other international guests.
As part of the activities of "Red Ribbon Week" on November 26th and 27th, the "International Conference for Validating Guides of Incidence and Sexual Health for Boys" will take place at the Hotel Excelsior. This is done in order to validate the content of the guides with a strong focus on human rights, in the current context of the HIV epidemic in gay men in Latin America and the Caribbean.
HIV now affects over 40 million people around the world, without distinction of race, creed, gender, age, sexual orientation or socio-economic level. In Latin America, gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM ) are the group most affected by this epidemic because of the stigma and discrimination that have contributed to deny their existence in the field of public health, thus causing the absence of government action to ensure their access to prevention and treatment programs for HIV.
