The Municipality of Portimão marked the International Day of Condoms today with the distribution of informative and preventive material to those who passed through the city center this morning.
This action aimed to raise awareness about the use of condoms in all sexual practices, as well as other forms of transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.
Portimão is one of the “Fast Track Cities – Cities on the Fast Track to Eliminating HIV” and one of the 10 signatory cities of the Paris Declaration that have committed, by 2020, to accelerate their local response to HIV and hepatitis virus infection , with a view to eliminating these infections as public health problems.
Today's initiative was carried out in conjunction with the Directorate-General for Health and in partnership with MAPS- Movement for Support to the AIDS Problem.
The latter institution «has the mission of developing, promoting and ensuring the provision of services to the community, in the context of the issues of HIV/AIDS, sexuality, addictions, homelessness, migrants, ethnic minorities, discriminated groups and other issues of social emergency, contributing to the treatment, development, integration and social inclusion, prevention and awareness of intervention issues, as well as human training and enhancement, in order to transmit its values to those involved with MAPS», according to the Chamber of Portimao.
International Condom Day has been celebrated since 2008, at the initiative of the AIDS Health Care Foundation and the Directorate General of Health, through the National Priority Health Programs in the areas of HIV and AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, of the Division of Sexual Health, Reproductive, Children and Youth, and the Literacy, Health and Welfare Division.
The purpose of this day “is to remember the importance of condoms as a measure to prevent sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies”.
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