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Aids: over 6,200 calls to the toll-free number of the Higher Institute of Health in 2021

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They are mainly men (83.6%), resident in the North and Center, with an average age of 35 years. This is the photograph of the user who called the AIDS Freephone of the Higher Institute of Health in 2021, for a total of 6,219 calls. Phone calls that also testified how the Sars-Cov-2 epidemic has “made daily life more difficult for people with chronic HIV infection”, causing a “significant deterioration in the level of health care, especially in periods of greatest diffusion. of Covid “, when” the infectious disease wards were overwhelmed by the emergency, becoming, in some cases, inaccessible to those who were not affected by a new infection “.

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The data for 2021, released by the ISS on the eve of World AIDS Day which is celebrated on December 1st, are in line with those resulting from the more than 820,000 calls received on the Toll-Free Telephone since June 1987. In particular , 36.2% of all phone calls received in 2021 concern users who have never taken an HIV test. This suggests the importance of the Iss Green Telephone, able to put users in contact with the 650 Diagnostic-Clinical Centers and the 28 Checkpoints present throughout the country, to provide information on where to carry out the test.

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In particular, in a pandemic, through the anonymous and free ISS toll-free telephone, a real primary prevention intervention was provided to indicate to users the need to maintain all measures aimed at avoiding the risk of contagion from SARS-CoV. -2, especially in social and sexual relationships with unknown partners. In this context, in the period March – September 2021, a telephone survey was also carried out on 528 users, mostly male, young adults, dependent professionals, which revealed that in 44.3% of cases there were already subjected to the anti-Covid vaccination.

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