International Aids Day

According to details given today from the Councillor for Health and Consume, Aina Salom, because of the celebration of the World Aids Day on December 1, in the Balearics the tendency is decreasing in the illness since 1996, having registered on June 30, 2000 a total of 1,648 cases, of which 1,311 are on Mallorca, 240 on Ibiza-Formentera, and 86 in Menorca.

Of these 1,648, cases 50,4% (830) correspond to the category of transmission by drug addicts, 22.5% to homosexuals and 16.5% to heterosexuals.

At the press conference in which the details were presented, representatives of the NGOs attended: Escola de Sida de Balears, ALAS, Ben Amics, Siloé, Consell de Joventut, Cruz Roja Juventud and Metges del Món, organisers of the AIDS week.

On Friday, an informative marquee "Carpa informativa Día Mundial contra la SIDA" will be installed in the Plaça Major in Palma.

Meanwhile, the international humanitarian organisation, Médicos sin Fronteras (MSF), has asked pharmaceutical industries to fulfil their promise to reduce the prices of medicines against Aids.

More information: Ben Amics - Agrupació gai i lesbiana de les Illes Balears

Date of publication: 30/11/2000

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