{"id":231977,"date":"2022-10-25T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hivaz.org\/?p=231977"},"modified":"2022-10-25T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:47:33","slug":"chriss-story-everyone-deserves-the-right-to-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hivaz.org\/es\/chriss-story-everyone-deserves-the-right-to-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"La historia de Chris: Todos merecen el derecho a curar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recib\u00ed una llamada de una amiga separada, en alg\u00fan momento de 1995, en la que espet\u00f3: &quot;Tengo<br \/>\nHepatitis C, y probablemente t\u00fa tambi\u00e9n la tengas, y vamos a morir por eso\u201d. antes de repente<br \/>\ncolgar. Me asust\u00e9, inmediatamente fui y me drogu\u00e9, y proced\u00ed a hacer mi mejor esfuerzo para<br \/>\nignorar esta advertencia durante las pr\u00f3ximas dos d\u00e9cadas.<\/p>\n<p>Hab\u00eda muchas razones para esta decisi\u00f3n. Mi vida ya era ca\u00f3tica, y yo no<br \/>\nquiero introducir a sabiendas m\u00e1s caos en \u00e9l, especialmente porque no hab\u00eda una cura. yo no<br \/>\nquiero ponerme voluntariamente en una posici\u00f3n para enfrentar la condenaci\u00f3n y el juicio seguros de un<br \/>\nm\u00e9dico sobre mi consumo de drogas. No quer\u00eda que una afecci\u00f3n preexistente me impidiera obtener<br \/>\nseguro en el futuro. No pens\u00e9 que iba a vivir mucho tiempo, dado mi estilo de vida, y mucho<br \/>\ndel tiempo la depresi\u00f3n y la ansiedad me dijeron que no quer\u00eda vivir de todos modos. Pero sobre todo estaba asustado,<br \/>\ny confundido, y sent\u00ed que el acceso a la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica estaba m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de mi alcance y capacidad. no fue<br \/>\nque no me importaba mi salud, era que me dec\u00edan que no merec\u00eda estar sana. Que mi<br \/>\nel consumo de drogas y las \u201copciones\u201d de estilo de vida eran prueba de que no lo merec\u00eda. Y eso lo interioric\u00e9<br \/>\nmensaje.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed que segu\u00ed adelante asumiendo que ten\u00eda el VHC, pero que morir\u00eda antes de que empeorara. Y yo<br \/>\ntom\u00e9 precauciones para asegurarme de no propagarlo a otros lo mejor que pude. No ten\u00edamos<br \/>\nacceso a jeringas est\u00e9riles o informaci\u00f3n confiable en esos d\u00edas, y aprend\u00ed c\u00f3mo mantenerme a salvo<br \/>\nde otros usuarios de drogas. Jeringas de blanqueamiento, no compartir cepillos de dientes o corta\u00fa\u00f1as, etc.<br \/>\nPero hab\u00eda tantas cosas que no sab\u00eda: cu\u00e1nto tiempo podr\u00eda vivir el VHC despu\u00e9s de haber estado expuesto a<br \/>\naire, que era viable en peque\u00f1as cantidades en las cucharas y filtros de algod\u00f3n que compart\u00ed con otros, que<br \/>\nla lej\u00eda no fue 100% efectiva, que el agua que compartimos al llenar nuestras jeringas estaba contaminada.<br \/>\nY mucho m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p>Finalmente me hicieron la prueba mientras estaba encarcelado en 2004 e inmediatamente me dijeron que no era un candidato.<br \/>\npara el tratamiento con interfer\u00f3n. Tambi\u00e9n me dijeron que no pod\u00eda seguir siendo s\u00edndico, porque no era<br \/>\npermitido preparar comida debido a mi hepatitis. Hab\u00eda, y todav\u00eda hay, mucha desinformaci\u00f3n<br \/>\nsobre los diferentes tipos de hepatitis!<\/p>\n<p>Eventualmente, las opciones de tratamiento y los resultados mejoraron. En 2015, despu\u00e9s de tres meses de<br \/>\ninterfer\u00f3n, ribavirina y sovaldi, logr\u00e9 SVR. En ese momento, estaba fuera de la c\u00e1rcel, manejando un negocio il\u00edcito<br \/>\nprograma de servicio de jeringas y activo a nivel nacional en defensa del VHC. Estaba trabajando localmente para<br \/>\neliminar las barreras al tratamiento, asegurarse de que las personas que viven con el VHC conozcan los hechos, que conozcan<br \/>\nsus derechos (incluso si contin\u00faan consumiendo drogas) y, lo que es m\u00e1s importante, que sab\u00edan que no estaban<br \/>\nsolo. Si se nos negara el acceso a la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica, al menos podr\u00edamos participar en<br \/>\nayuda y organ\u00edzate para contraatacar!<\/p>\n<p>Hemos recorrido un largo camino en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, y aunque todav\u00eda nos queda un largo camino por recorrer,<br \/>\nTres cosas parecen claras:<\/p>\n<p>1) La eliminaci\u00f3n es posible<br \/>\n2) Las personas que consumen drogas merecen acceso a la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica<br \/>\n3) Las personas que consumen drogas son compa\u00f1eros imprescindibles en la planificaci\u00f3n de la eliminaci\u00f3n.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recib\u00ed una llamada de una amiga separada, en alg\u00fan momento de 1995, en la que espet\u00f3: &quot;Tengo hepatitis C, y probablemente t\u00fa tambi\u00e9n la tengas, y vamos a [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hep-c"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chris\u2019s Story: Everyone Deserves the Right to Cure - HIV prevention, care, and resources throughout Arizona. 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