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Earlier this month, but in 1981, the first cases of AIDS in the world in Los Angeles, USA and so this year marks 30 years since the onset of the disease.

The diagnosis was younger patients who an unusual pneumonia had caused their death. The picture was produced by a microorganism called Pneumocystis, now known as Pneumocystis jiroveci, and occurred in people who had an unexplained alteration of immunity.

In that first moment, “The New York Times ran a cover story under the title” A strange disease that alters immunity could become a threat. “At that point, just know that patients with this disorder have in common that they were young men who had sex with other men.

The first articles published on the subject, realized that perhaps it was a virus that altered immunity and could be transmitted sexually, by contaminated blood and vertical transmission (from mother to child).

Later, these findings were confirmed, i.e. establishing the three routes of HIV acquisition, until in 1983 it was able to identify the virus causing the disease: a retrovirus that causes immunodeficiency, leading to the disease Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS. This first phase ends when between 1984 and 1985 shows the Elisa test, which identifies early as those infected with HIV.

While the Health Sector of our country promotes the importance of using condoms during sex to prevent HIV / AIDS and the Ministry of Health in Ithacan takes actions to distribute condoms and educate health sector operating tables and support to civil society organizations to promote actions for the prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections, Sties, HIV and AIDS and discrimination, stigma and homophobia, Deputy Paz Gutierrez Corrine Fraction PAN legislators, promotes changes to the General Health Law, which violate the sexual freedom of the people, arguing that fidelity are the best ways to stop STI thus discrediting the use of condoms as a preventive measure, scientifically proven .

Again, the condom is of a mess in the lower house of the LXI Legislature of the Congress and the Peace Rep. Gutierrez Corrine, presented the initiative to amend sections 309 and 310 of the General Health Act in order to tell people that condoms do not protect against Sties, 100 percent, to skip advertising phrases such as safe sex, that is not directed to children under 14 years, and its dissemination in electronic media is made only after 22 hours.

This situation worries us and we must take, any time you are undermining the reproductive rights of children and adolescents and Mexico, violating their rights and creating discrimination and denying them the right to be informed about Sties and ways to prevention. Also, where is the coordination work of the Ministers of Education and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean, signed by the 2008 Ministerial Declaration “Education for Prevention”?, Which includes just these issues about the culture of prevention.

Looking to the position of Deputy Paz Gutierrez Corrine even the Church, it is important that health authorities in Mexico maintain the level of information to the public on issues of reproductive rights and sexuality, as well as to everything with measures of attention, control, prevention and fight against homophobia, discrimination and stigma against people living with HIV / AIDS, and to continue the distribution of condoms.