HIV / AIDS cases in Puerto Vallarta have been increasing between 20 and 25 a month during the pandemic, according to the doctor Saúl Oswaldo Ruiz Torres, coordinator of the Outpatient Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV / AIDS (Capasits) in the city.
Ruiz Torres indicated that the coronavirus pandemic brought with it an increase in people who came to take the test and, therefore, the number of patients also increased.
"Right now with the Covid issue, we saw something important, that there began to be more detection and there were more people who . . .
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