'Prep service' for those at risk of HIV infection

Residents of Palpa, Gulmi, Rupandehi, Arghakhanchi, Syangja and other neighboring districts will benefit from this service.

According to Health Office Palpa, this treatment service aimed at high-risk people in Narayani West will benefit people who have not been infected with HIV. According to the health office, this service will also benefit the workers who are at risk of going to work in the neighboring country India.

Health Office Palpa official Vishwanath Neupane said that sex partners of people who are infected with HIV and taking ART services will benefit the most. Apart from these, gay men and women will also get benefits.

Prep services can also be provided to sex workers, women or men. Sowakant Neupane, branch manager of Nepal Family Planning Association, Palpa, said that this service was started by focusing on injecting drug users and sex patients in the society to protect them from HIV infection.

Women and men coming from abroad will be monitored by various means to make them free from the risk of HIV infection. Family planning association Palpa said that medical officers and 10 community volunteers have been deployed for that.

Prep treatment service is a method of treatment based on the symptoms before the disease occurs, said Rakesh Lal Bajracharya, senior medical officer of the Family Planning Association. Prep treatment will be free. Since it will be done with complete confidentiality, you can get services with confidence. Bajcharya said. 24 hours service will be provided for this treatment . All the tests before and after starting the

love treatment will be free. Medical officer Bajracharya assured us that there is no reduction in the natural sexual power by using prep medicine. People who are at risk of HIV infection have to take one pill daily as Prep is an oral medicine.

is only for the protection of HIV infection and from other sexually transmitted diseases Bajracharya, a senior medical officer, said that a condom should be used to prevent it. HIV test should be done regularly. He said that he should consult a doctor regularly.

District Coordinating Committee Palpa Head Tankanath Khanal said that in order to operate the service effectively, they do not want to open to the HIV-infected community, so it will help to protect the people who are at risk from them. He said that this service is challenging in itself. According to the health office, about 350 HIV infected people were infected in Palpa till the end of the last financial year.