2023-05-13 20:02:12
Ivette González is a Puerto Rican activist for HIV patients, but her greatest achievement is being the mother of two children.
By: Luis Penchi
Ivette González is the president of the Permanent Assembly in favor of patients HIV Positive, being herself a patient of this condition, but his greatest achievement in life is to be madre of two children and grandmother of two children.
González, who is still fighting a battle to guarantee access for some 16,000 patients with the virus that triggers Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), proudly told the Journal of Medicine and Health Public that his main conquest in life is to be madre Chalibel, 30, and Yahir, 19 years old.
Chalibel, from whom she became pregnant in 1992 when she herself discovered that she was positive for HIVis a professional in the field of real estate and her son Yahir is a university student.
The activist social recalled that it is a women living with HIV. “I was diagnosed in 1992 when I was in my eighth month of pregnancy with my first daughter. I married a man who unfortunately has already passed away and who acquired the virus from drug use. When my husband took the test, it was determined that he had already He was in the AIDS stage, although he did not have any disease that revealed it, but it was determined by counting his defenses,” said González.
the dynamic women confirmed that she has never had any other risky behavior than sexual relations with her husband, from whom she separated following her daughter was born and ten years later he died.
González is a native of San Lorenzo, but a resident for decades in Puerto Nuevo.
“I found out regarding my diagnosis of HIV on August 11, 1992 and my daughter was born on September 24 of that same year. My daughter was born by natural childbirth, I went through rejection during childbirth from a doctor who did not even want to touch me. A doctor put on double gloves, she did not want to touch me to find out how many centimeters she had, she made gestures that she was disgusted, “Ivette said between sobs.
González gave birth and the doctor who attended her did not even want to remove the placenta. “When my daughter was born and since what was used was the Western Blot test, my baby tested positive at birth. That positive meant that I had to wait until my baby was 18 months old to find out if she had received the transmission of the virus or just “I had received the antibodies. I did not breastfeed my baby because I was educated. The girl produced her own antibodies at 18 months and when they did the test, she did not give a positive result,” she explained excitedly.
Ivette married in 2003 following the death of her first husband. In 2004 she had a boy who is now 19 years old. “I took specialized medications during pregnancy. She was born by caesarean section. They gave me an intravenous antiviral, as part of the protocol that is used today in women with HIV. The first six months of his life he took an antiviral and he continues to test negative because there are already tests to find out and thank God he also tested negative,” he explained.
González recounted that her 30-year-old daughter made her a grandmother. Zael is 8 years old and Zaliel is 6 and they are both healthy and hard-working students. Ivette has all her family in San Lorenzo, where she was educated when she was young and she enjoys today with them on Mother’s Day.
“The fight in favor of these patients has become my life mission to be able to help them,” he said. In Puerto Rico have accumulated in 40 years, 51 thousand cases of people with HIV and 62% have already died. “31 thousand people have died. It is estimated that there are 21 thousand people alive with HIVbut as a result of Hurricane Maria, the earthquakes and the pandemic, many went to live in the United States and it is believed that we have 16,000 patients residing here,” he added.
The health leader continues to staunchly defend the current treatment provision system that the Secretary of Health, Carlos Mellado. “At present, people who have HIVbut they die from other conditions that are determined to be comorbidities,” he said.
González is 55 years old, was diagnosed at 24 and continues to fight for Mellado to make the current use of federal funds official through a written document that he has not yet signed.
“Since October of last year we are claiming the Insurance Administration of Health of Puerto Rico (ASES) that implemented on January 1st, a regulation with a drug reimbursement program under Medicaid. This regulation threatens our security and that is why we have asked the Secretary that our medicines be given outside of this regulation,” he stressed.
González explained that Mellado has administratively decided that the medicines are not subject to the new rule, but he has not put it in writing.
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