The cases of Zika virus in Brazil

For a few weeks, the WHO and the Centers for Disease Control or CDC have provided a possibility for men to spread the Zika virus to their sexual partners. However, for Brazil hindered in the political chaos, thus addressing the emergence of Zika transmission path and that is still in the last list of their priorities. Zika virus has been associated to the rising level of the microcephaly cases and other birth abnormalities in Brazil, such as the Guillaine Barre Syndrome, which is also a kind of autoimmune disorder. However, even if the proof that sexual transmission of Zika is piling and is more typical than the past records, it was believed that the Brazilian government has expanded the public health outreach to highlight safer sex as a type of preventive measure.

What the CDC has to say about Zika virus

Last Friday, the CDC has given new rules to follow and this is for men who are infected with Zika, telling them to wait just for 6 months from the start of the signs, even before they engage in an unprotected sex. By distinction, the Brazilian health officials have given advised to the women when it comes to delaying pregnancy through self-discipline or through the use of contraception to prevent Zika linked with birth defects; however, they stayed silent in terms of using condoms to prevent the spreading of sexually transmitted diseases.  The absence of government response to the possibility of sexually transmitted Zika is in accordance with the sign of the paralysis brought about by Brazil’s present political crisis; this is in accordance with the Sonia Correa. 

The capacity of the state to respond to the STDs and STD Testing as a whole is truly compromised and there is just nothing from the political point of view that will change very soon. This is according to Correa.  On the other hand, she also added that it may be reflective of the longer standing challenges about philosophy that is just in between the left and the right wing political forces regarding the reproductive health care as well as the prevention of the STDs.  Just in 1990s, the HIV prevention as well as treatment program of Brazil has been often held up as a model for the other developing nations.

However, the conservative forces in Brazil’s National Congress that have taken numbers of steps in the current years to restrict and eradicate some of the HIV preventive campaigns to confine the reproductive rights. With that in mind, the combination of the fragmented public health system that harshly strained by the cutbacks in the funds, because of corruption and for the decentralization which has lessened the probability for the STI treatment as well as prevention in accordance to Correa.  She insisted that with the present rise in the HIV infections, there is a leap in the number of congenital syphilis infections as a proof that the government’s STI preventive efforts are not actually working. 

 

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