The undersigned ask to consult the Minister of Health, to know
given that
According to data released by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, AIDS has affected over 40 million people in the world, that 5 million men, women and children were infected in 2005, of which 3.2 million in sub-Saharan Africa, that in 2005 3.1 million people died from AIDS and related diseases, that since the AIDS virus was identified 25 million people have died.
considering that
According to data released by the CoA, the AIDS Operations Center, of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, relating to the epidemiology of the disease in 2004, 848 new cases were diagnosed in the first half of 2004, while there were 321 deaths. The data relating to the spread of AIDS in Italy in the first half of 2005 also remain alarming. It is estimated that in our country there are 110-130 thousand HIV-positive people, so much so that, according to an Adnkronos agency on October 21, 2005, in the first half of 2005 "789 new cases of AIDS were notified to the AIDS Operations Center (Coa) of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Of these, 443 were diagnosed in the last half of the year, the others refer to diagnoses made in the previous half-years. In particular, of the 443 cases diagnosed in Italy from January 1 to June 30, 2005, 171 were registered in Lombardy; 11 in Lazio; 47 in Emilia Romagna; 22 in Piedmont; 34 in Tuscany; 24 in Veneto; 7 in Liguria; 19 in Sicily; 21 in Puglia; 5 in Campania; 10 in Sardinia; 13 in Marche; 4 in Calabria; 10 in Abruzzo; 11 in Umbria; 7 in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Giulia; 2 in the Autonomous Province of Trento; 3 in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and 2 in Basilicata".
added that
There is no ongoing campaign to prevent and fight AIDS in Italy, so much so that the Ministry of Health website reports as its first news item the presentation, more than a year ago, on 14 October 2004, by the Ministry of Health of a “Report to Parliament on the state of implementation of the strategies activated to deal with HIV infection in 2003” (!) and that in all European countries the campaigns to fight AIDS are constant, still ongoing and have never suffered interruptions.
taking into account that
During this legislature, no information and prevention campaigns aimed at specific targets have been undertaken, excluding associations (Lila, Arcigay, etc.) from the information campaigns.
given that
It has reached the point of absurdity that a homosexual man was banned from donating blood at the Milan Polyclinic because, according to Dr. Maurizio Marconi, of the Milan Polyclinic's transfusion center, "It is scientifically documented" that "the risk of transmitting viral infections is greater for a homosexual man who has sex with a man than for a heterosexual man who has sex with a woman. It is also obvious, for example, that if the woman is a prostitute, the risk is equally high."“
we ask the Minister
– because, in the face of alarming data, there is currently no trace of an awareness campaign to fight AIDS.
– because homosexual citizens were excluded from the targets of the Ministry of Health's previous AIDS prevention campaign.
– Whether you don't believe the situation in Italy is worrying and requires greater government commitment, both in terms of information and prevention initiatives that do not censor condoms as the only preventive measure, and in terms of subsidies for AIDS organizations and gay associations that have been working since the beginning of the pandemic.
– what is Italy's contribution to the fight against AIDS in the world?.
– What is the current state of research into the disease in our country?.
