Within the framework of the World Day of the Fight against AIDS, students from the Centro Universitario del Pacífico (Unipac) through the Coordination of Lic. Heriberto López carried out work for the benefit of civil organizations that support infected children and adolescents with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
“For the third consecutive year, our students collaborated altruistically with the Renacer Foundation, in Venezuela, through its representative, Mr. Jesús Daniel García Rosales, in addition to participating in activities to benefit 20 minors who currently live with HIV”, pointed out the Mtro. Antonio Jiménez Luna, director of Unipac.
Said contribution will allow girls, boys and adolescents to enjoy a Christmas activity that the foundation has been carrying out year after year, commented the manager.
Likewise, he said, for the first time, collaboration has been made through the Delia Ruiz Rivas Nurse Foundation, in aid of the “Las Memorias” Shelter, in the city of Tijuana, where winter items were delivered to children and adolescents who they live with HIV.
“The objective of the Centro Universitario del Pacífico is to create a level of empathy among its student community, breaking obsolete ideas about HIV and its population, supporting this program,” said Jiménez Luna.
Globally, at least 300,000 girls and boys were infected with HIV in 2020, one every two minutes, UNICEF declared in that year.
The academic referred that 2 out of 5 minors who suffer from HIV do not know their status and only slightly more than half of this population who suffer from HIV receive antiretroviral treatment, which is an alarming fact.
He stressed that it is estimated that more than 500 people are infected every day in Latin America, including women and children.
In addition, he pointed out that in Mexico the Ministry of Health has statistics for the second quarter of the current year in which there is talk of a total of 7,934 cases diagnosed throughout the country, of which around 400 are in Baja California.
“Given these figures and during the 40 years that the issue has been in force, it has not been possible to overcome the stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV, for this reason it is important to collaborate as educational institutions and with organizations that work for the benefit of dignifying well-being. of the people with this diagnosis”, concluded the Mtro. Antonio Jimenez.
