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Members of the Association Committee Against AIDS CoCoSI. Participants in the march held in San Salvador guié argued that culminates in the square several getado; fighting for the diversity of sexual orientation, world day of pride guié Saturday June 30.
CoCoSI in coordination with the Ministry of Health conducts testing for HIV / AIDS in prison sensuntepeque department Cabins, making a total of 116 tests between all these three tests are positive which the committee will be monitoring them with the program Accompanying that is on the committee.
The committee will make a restructuring due to the nature of work and to obtain a greater extent in the Department of Cabañas, a better structure gives better control, order, communication, time to give more coverage to work to be ase in rural communities Cabins department of Lempira and southern Honduras, the president commented committee. 

INFECIONES HIV / AIDS TO DAY

On average, which corresponds to the first half of the year, puts 2007 as the year with the highest transmission. An average of 6.2 Salvadorans are infected with HIV / AIDS every day in the first half of the year, according to statistics from the HIV / AIDS programme of the Ministry of Health. Suman total 1135 new cases for the first six months of this year. This figure breaks down to an average of 4.6 cases per day that was recorded last year. The trend of the statistics shows that the new infections this year will exceed those of 2006, and also those who were registered in 2004. In this past year, there were 2089 cases, the highest figure since that of this infection detected in the country in the mid eighties. We believe that we will end the year with 2.200. Yes cases have increased, because we agorita about 2000 registered, and last year there were 1700. There is an increase of about 300 cases, "explained the deputy coordinator of the HIV / AIDS programme, Guillermo Galvan. Galvan attributed the rise in the number of cases to the strengthening of epidemiological surveillance system and the conduct massive tests conducted last June 27, the national day of the test. Despite the numbers, those in charge of the program are satisfied with the work at this stage of the year achieved in the field of prevention and treatment of disease. For Health, the floodwaters in the event of 2007 is not an alarming situation, because the country has not emerged from the margins of infection with other Latin American countries. But we know that CoCoSI as it is not true that no ay to wait compare with other piase if not take our own responsibility and show commitment as the motto for December said "keep your promise assumes leadership" Less carefree with the situation in the country shows the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS). This agency warned yesterday that El Salvador is within six Latin American countries with the highest prevalence of infection. Belize, Guatemala and Honduras are the other three nations in Central America, according to the report from UNAIDS, share the same reality of high rates of the virus. The two countries in the region emerging removed from that list are Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The picture, from the perspective of UNAIDS, is not encouraging. "It has been estimated that by 2010 Central America can achieve a rate of prevalence in the adult population of 2, alert.