2 December 2008
Luanda — The clinic director of the "Esperança" hospital, Rosa Mateta, said Monday in Luanda that the clinic situation of most of controlled Hiv positive persons is asymptomatic as they show healthy behaviour.
Speaking to Angop, Rosa Mateta stressed that a group of adhesion comprising nurses, physicians and activists was set up with the purpose of making the Hiv positive aware of their condition, join the treatment and use condoms for a better living.
"There has been success with many hi-positive persons, as in a great part of these individuals, opportune infections do not develop, that is they are asymptomatic," she explained.
According to the official, the hospital has recorded, between 2004 and 2008 a total of 15,000 Hiv positive persons, 8,000 of whom are taking anti-retroviral treatment, whereas 7,000 have been transferred to hospitals near their homes.
She stated that between January and October this year, 2,647 patients were assisted at the Counselling, Volunteer Testing Centre (CATV), with their age ranging from 20 to 29 years. 70 percent of them are women,.
"Of the 4,019 people who came voluntarily to CATV, 1,189 tested positive," she explained.
She added that the hospital has anti-retroviral drugs and ten physicians to assist the patients.
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