Health Authorities and Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) have established agreements to improve the care of people living with HIV in Jalisco.
Among the approved agreements is the creation of an HIV diagnosis network in health centers to detect and refer people in a timely manner. Likewise, it was approved to manage a center specialized in HIV care, under the CAPASITS model that provides comprehensive care in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area.
Other approved goals are to establish techniques to solve specific problems, and to join efforts between the people that have HIV, civil organizations, and the Government, under a comprehensive and not just medical vision.
"I take the commitment that we are going to continue working with the Secretariat for Substantive Equality, and with the Secretariat for Citizen Participation, because this is an issue that is not only about drugs or prevention, it is a matter of a human being who needs comprehensive care," said the head of the SSJ Fernando Petersen Aranguren.
Before the representatives of the CSOs present at Friday’s meeting, Aranguren expressed his commitment and desire to work hand in hand with the organizations, carrying out a permanent self-evaluation with a comprehensive approach, not only medical but also human.
General director of the OPD Jalisco Health Services, José de Jesús Méndez de Lira, explained that medical care will be led by the agency with specialist doctors, after remembering that the goal is to depressurize hospitals and provide comprehensive services in the first level units.
The technical secretary of the State Council for the Prevention of AIDS in Jalisco, Luis Ruiz Mora, said that the institution is open to dialogue and committed to generating strategies in conjunction with CSOs, highlighting that "It seems important to me to consider the councils as these spaces for dialogue and to generate comprehensive care committees."
The meeting is part of the State Government's commitment to meet the requests of CSOs in order to continue providing timely and quality care to people living with this condition.
Goals set at the meeting included the creation of an HIV diagnosis network in health centers to detect and refer people in a timely manner, management of a specialized center to provide comprehensive care, and to establish technical tables to solve specific problems and join efforts between society, social organizations, and the Government.