Mato Grosso shows as a leader in the ranking of early pregnancy
Posted on June 19th, 2009 in Uncategorized
Sexual transmission of AIDS remains the greatest means of contamination in 59.3% of cases among people 13 to 24 years. The second major means of transmission is via blood with 31% and of these, 94.3% is due to injecting drug use.
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Mato Grosso leads the ranking of early pregnancy in Brazil. The information is the State Secretary of the Group Manager (GGE) of the Health and Prevention in Schools, Angelica Garcia de Souza. She explained the actions and difficulties of the program in 7th ordinary meeting of the Commission for Education, Science, Technology, Culture and Sport of the Legislative Assembly. The committee chairman, Mr Alexandre Cesar state (PT) and the State, Mr Hermínio J. Barreto (PR), they fight to ensure that resources in the state budget for the continued operation of the program that operates in the prevention of early pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), AIDS and drug use in schools.
The Health and Prevention Program in Schools was created by the federal government and works in partnership between the Ministries of Health and Education. In Mato Grosso in 2005 he was adopted by the Secretaries of State for Education and Health (Seduce and SES), working in teacher training and youth multipliers of information on drugs, STDs and AIDS in schools. NGOs as Partners Free-mind, Cufa, the Sintep, the UFMT, Univag, among others, have helped this increase.
This year the program will train multipliers in 24 municipalities of Mato Grosso. To justify the importance of working the issues of pregnancy, drugs and STDs with youth, Angélica de Souza showed a survey done by UNESCO / MS. In 2005 there were 869,201 young people of the state, between 10 to 24 years, accounting for 31% of the population. The age range is considered vulnerable to STDs and AIDS, as each year, an estimated 4 thousand young people become sexually active in Brazil. Cuiabá in the average age of sexual initiation is 13.9 years for males and 15.7 years for girls.
Between 1980 and 2004, 15.2% of AIDS cases reported in Brazil were under 24 years, with a total of 55,060 individuals. Sexual transmission of AIDS remains the greatest means of contamination in 59.3% of cases among people 13 to 24 years. The second major means of transmission is via blood with 31% and of these, 94.3% is due to injecting drug use.
As the secretary of the GGE of Health and Prevention Program in Schools, the Associations have been major partners not only to disclose information of the program but also for the recovery of the young. • Many times young people do not give the proper value because they are hopeless about the future, but the Associations they learn to be protagonists of change in society and the history of life, “said Angélica de Souza.
Associations to strengthen the schools said that Angelica multipliers inform students of the legislation that promotes the youth, among them is the State Law No 8801 of January 8, 2008, authored by Mr Alexandre Cesar state, which grants the right to free Associations of student organization, academic centers, directories and directories central academic students.
The president of the NGO Free-mind, Clovis Arantes, the Health and Prevention Program in Schools to be perpetuated and not stop working with future changes in government. • The program is essential because it brings to the school everything that the teacher did not learn to deal when studied in college. It is a curriculum that is invisible in the courtyard, corridors and toilets in schools, through the conversations of students on drugs and dating, but you need to come to the classroom. You must guide them on family planning, the use of drugs and sexually transmitted diseases?, Weighed.
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