Expectation of the Ministry of health is that 300 tests are made on Tuesday. A few drops of blood are sufficient for a reliable diagnosis in up to 30 minutes and in the Indian village.< h6 style = "text-align: center;" >
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the Ministry of health began last Tuesday, the achievement of rapid tests for detection of HIV among indigenous peoples of Mato Grosso. The first village visited by health teams, coordinated by the Special Secretariat of indigenous health (Sesai) of the Ministry of health, is Umutina, about 200 kilometers from the capital. The expectation is that today approximately 300 examinations are carried out among the Indians of childbearing age from the village of Umutina, answered by Indian Special Health District (DSEI) of Cuiabá.
a few drops of blood are sufficient for a reliable diagnosis in up to 30 minutes and in the village itself. “Enable access of indigenous people living in remote areas like this, without examinations which they have to leave the community, represents a great gain to the quality of life of these people”, highlights the Special Secretary of indigenous health, Antônio Alves. Earlier, the Indians needed to be removed from the urban areas to make the collection of blood and wait 15 days to receive the results of
tests.
addition to the achievement of the collection and examination, health professionals are trained to guide the indigenous people about the importance of the tests. In the coming months, rapid tests for syphilis and hepatitis B and C shall be carried out in 10 ethnicities of DSEI of Cuiabá, located in 16 municipalities in the State covering an area of two million and 300 thousand hectares of land, where they live around 6.5 thousand indigenous. “This work is part of the integral attention to indigenous health, which is executed respecting the specificities of each of the 220 people inhabiting the national territory,” explains
Secretary Antonio Alves.
new technology and the procedures for the rapid tests shall be validated by the national health surveillance agency (Anvisa) and can be performed without loss of effectiveness, even under adverse conditions, such as in areas where the temperature or the humidity is high.
Treatment
in the event of a positive diagnosis for HIV and viral hepatitis, patients are removed the reference to municipalities and assisted in units of the single health system (SUS). Already the treatment for syphilis begins immediately after the confirmation of the diagnosis and is held in the village
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System
the Special Indigenous Sanitary Districts (DSEI) is a decentralized unit of the Indian health care Subsystem (SasiSUS). This subsystem is formed by 34 DSEIs, across the country. Of these, nine already do the rapid tests for HIV and syphilis and are trained to perform tests for hepatitis B and C,
in the coming months.
In Amazonas and Roraima, more than 45 thousand Indians who live in remote villages or in towns of difficult access (approximately 55% of the indigenous population of the two States) have already made these types of examinations in DSEIs of Alto Solimões, headquartered in Tabatinga (AM); Alto Rio Negro, with headquarters in São Gabriel da Cachoeira (AM); Manaus (AM); Parintins (AM); Middle Rio Purus, with headquarters in Lábrea (AM); The Middle Solimões, headquartered in Tefé (AM); Vale do Javari, headquartered in Atalaia do Norte (AM) and Eastern Roraima and Yanomami, both based in Boa Vista (RR).
