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José Eduardo Illueca, councilor of the municipal group of IU-Greens, recalls that "every year in Spain, get the virus between 3500 and 4000, already affecting a total of 150,000, of new diagnoses, 45 percent are late , which affects society, by the unconscious transmission of the virus and people, as far as recovery is concerned. "

"With this information on the table" - continues the eco-socialist mayor - "prevention is the only effective weapon to deal with the spread of AIDS, which figures in our region has grown alarmingly that take us back to the situation makes 30 years. "

Illueca no doubt that the regional government knows this information, but "our leaders have also put the scissors in programs of prevention and treatment of AIDS in the interest of fiscal consolidation."

Also at the national level has taken a step back on preventive policies, "versus what is a public health problem of the first order, the Popular Party government responds with a budget cut in the allocation for the National Plan on AIDS by 80 percent, from 4.5 million in 2011 to just one million by 2013. "

An economic slowdown which is, in the opinion of this council, "disarticulation care services to people living with HIV, as well as services and prevention campaigns were developing both national, regional and local level, always under the umbrella of the National AIDS Plan. "

Moreover, these cuts "gaps regarding control of HIV infection, a key strategy for curbing the pandemic and achieve the goal of a generation without AIDS compound, which keeps us from achieving the goal of WHO, they started in 2015 to reduce the spread of HIV. "

It is necessary that municipalities information and education campaigns to prevent AIDS, to promote condom use and raise awareness among the population about the need to be tested for detection are developed, because "early diagnosis ensures a better quality of life of those affected and control of HIV transmission: it is cheaper and more effective to prevent than cure, high no action seems to govern health officials. "

Consistent with this approach, the ecosocialista council has sent a letter to the Mayor of Cieza in which he sought "a course of action that is initiated in this regard, within the framework of municipal competencies in information and prevention on a disease, perhaps have been partially forgotten by the population, again in these times to show your face more terrible. "

Source: IU-verdes Cieza