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Ministry of Health recommends condom use for preventing hepatitis C

02/04/2013

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Ministry of Health recommended condom use also for the prevention of hepatitis C
The GLOBE AGENCY


RIVER-While hepatitis C is most often transmitted by blood contact or by contaminated blood transfusion or sharing needles and equipment that cut like nail clippers and tattoo needle, sexual transmission can not be ignored. According to the Ministry of Health, although it is a rare form of transmission, no record in the medical literature that contamination by unprotected sexual contact can result in transmission of the virus. Hepatitis C is a disease of silent action, which can take up to 20 years to manifest symptoms, and cirrhosis and liver cancer the worst consequences, if there is early diagnosis. 

Ellen Zita, general coordinator of the Human Rights Unit, Risk and Vulnerability, Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases of the Ministry of Health, says that even in stable and monogamous relationships, the carrier of hepatitis C, just like anyone else, can not leave to use condoms during sexual intercourse. 

- We can not say that hepatitis C is not transmitted by sexual contact. It is not only an understanding of this department, but the scientific literature on the subject. People with multiple sexual partners and practice of risk are chances of contamination. The determination of the department is that any sexual relationship, even the stable of partners, must occur with condom use. In the case of family planning, the couple's decision to have children should be accompanied with complete safety - tells Ellen. 

On Friday, The GLOBE has published a report on scientific research from Oxford University that shows that injecting drug users are more likely to spread hepatitis C. The study, based on analysis of genetic material harvested from the blood plasma of European volunteers, concludes that each user with hepatitis C can spread the disease for up to 20 people, mostly in the first two years of infection. 

- There are different logic on how civil society dealing with hepatitis C. Carriers do not want to stigmatize be confused with risk groups, since contracted the disease in blood transfusions or contaminated objects. Hepatitis C but requires further study and determination of the department is to use condoms and early detection of disease.
Brazil is the only country that offers rapid testing for the disease free - Full Ellen.



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