The municipality of Holguin is one of 11 selected in Cuba for the development of an international project. Supported by the Pan American Health Organization. Aimed at preventing syphilis and its complications.
The United Nations Population Fund and the European Union Humanitarian Aid are also involved in the program. Which aims to improve the approach to this health problem among vulnerable groups. According to the website of the General Directorate of Public Health.
Moreover the strategy includes educational activities focused on the risk factors for this disease. Which will provide prevention strategies that will be extended to the rest of the country, the publication explained.
The program complements the efforts of the Ministry of Public Health through its STI-HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention Program. With the goal of reducing the incidence of these conditions. Maintaining Cuba’s certification as a country free of mother-to-child transmission of the disease.
Holguin is implementing a series of actions aimed at reducing the incidence of these types of illnesses. Involving community members, medical students, and volunteers. Despite the shortage of contraceptives such as condoms and birth control pills in the pharmacy network. Also in which most young couples cannot access due to the high prices on the black market.
Syphilis is a systemic infectious disease transmitted primarily through sexual contact. Whose clinical manifestations fluctuate in characteristics and intensity and appear and disappear in the different stages: primary, secondary, latent, or tertiary.
Among the most common symptoms are painless skin ulcers on the genitals and in the mouth. Although there may be multiple sores on other parts of the body or a diffuse rash that frequently affects the palms of the hands and soles of the feet in more advanced stages of the infection.
With information from the Cuban News Agency
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