24 minutes ago10 new HIV cases this year in Kosovo
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The number of HIV victims registered at the Infective Clinic since January until now is 10 new cases, but there are information that there are other new cases expected to come. That is how the chief of the HIV division at the Infectious Clinic of the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo [...]
The number of HIV victims registered at the Infective Clinic since January until now is 10 new cases, but there are information that there are other new cases expected to come. So suggests the chief of the HIV division, at the Infectious Clinic of the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo (QKUK), Murat Mehmeti, until he says this number is expected to increase steadily.
Mehmeti, in a proposal for Kosova Prees, said that according to information received by the National Institute of Public Health, the number of cases affected by HIV is greater than it is recorded.
Health professional Murat Mehmeti argued that currently a patient affected by HIV is lying at the Infectious Clinic, which is receiving medical treatment. He added that homosexuals are the most affected community of this virus.
Murati added, meanwhile, that the most HIV-affected ages are those 20 to 25 years old and primarily male. He added that this department has a lack of middle staff, as long as they are likely to stay well on the delivery of essential drugs.
That the number of HIV cases is increasing, says the director of the Psychiatric Specialist Centre “Labyrinth”, Safet Blakaj, who said that drug users, intimate relations between the same gender and other factors are affecting the increase in HIV cases.
HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system, the body's shield against bacteria and viruses with which it is in constant contact. HIV symptoms are fever, headaches, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, sore throat pain and frying. HIV can only be carried from person to person through body fluids, such as blood, sperm, and vaginal juice. HIV is the situation leading to the lack of immunity syndrome earned (AIDS). A The IDS is considered to be the final phase of HIV, also known as HIV stage 3. With treatment, most people with HIV are unlikely to develop AIDS.
According to the World Health Organization, since the beginning of the epidemic over 85 million people have been infected with HIV, some 40 million infected people have died of HIV. / KP/
