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05/21/2024 students of the Minsk Radio Engineering College visited the
center, friendly to teenagers “JUVENTUS”, where a presentation of the center’s work was held in the “RAKURS” community space.
Medical preventive doctor Inessa Aleksandrovna Palaznik told students about the work of the center, about anonymous treatment, free services and specialists who provide assistance to adolescents from the age of 14.
Students also took part in the campaign “Know your HIV status, take an HIV test!”, dedicated to the International Day of Remembrance of those Who Died from AIDS, which is celebrated annually on the third Sunday of May throughout the world.
Palaznik Inessa conducted a training on the prevention of HIV INFECTION, in which teenagers learned how to self-test for HIV using saliva in a playful way.
Currently diagnosed with HIV infection in the Republic of Belarus More than 25 thousand people live there. The largest number of new cases are registered among men and women aged 30 to 49 years; sexual transmission of HIV predominates, accounting for more than 80% of all registered cases.
More than 5870 HIV-positive people live in Minsk patients. The structure of morbidity by gender is dominated by men (63% of cases), and the structure of the main routes of transmission is sexual (72%). The largest number of cases of HIV infection was registered between the ages of 30 and 49 years (60.2%).
World AIDS Day of Remembrance is another opportunity to demonstrate readiness and desire to counter the further spread of HIV- infections.