SETAC Wellness Center’s New STD Detection Equipment
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) constitute a major burden on global health, ranking among the top five disease categories for which adults seek healthcare. More than one million people acquire a STD every day and thus the implementation of new molecular tools with the ability to detect these disease-causing pathogens rapidly and efficiently remains a significant […]
The IMPREP conducts surveys in Puerto Vallarta for future prevention campaigns
Last Saturday, October 20, a meeting with a group of young people from the LGBT community between the ages of 15 and 35 years old, of the LGBT population was held in Setac. The purpose was to give out carry out an anonymous informational survey through anonymous surveys with very specific questions prepared and analyzed […]
Puerto Vallarta and San Francisco, a twinning that strengthens the LGBT community
In order to strengthen ties that involve concrete actions in favor of the different areas of the cities of Puerto Vallarta and San Francisco (California), the twinning with the taking of protest of the Sister Cities Committee was formalized. This committee will have great importance since it will entail great challenges to generate activities that […]
PrEP Program Officially Launched in Puerto Vallarta
Thursday, September 13, 2018 was a historic day in Puerto Vallarta. It was on this day that the UN’s PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis) pilot program was officially launched in the Banderas Bay area and inaugurated at the S.E.T.A.C. LGBTQ Wellness Center in Colonia Versalles. The day started with a press conference at City Hall, where Arie […]
SETAC Community Center has its own medical office
A fully equipped medical office for patients requiring ambulatory care is now operating at the SETAC Community Center in Puerto Vallarta. Attending people who require diagnosis and care of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in addition to post-exposure prophylaxis treatment for HIV and now Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the clinic is in permanent operation during the hours […]
Workshop for young people on prevention
On Saturday 18, SETAC held a workshop for young people organized by the Canadian non-profit society Center for Human Progress on sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention. During the workshop coordinated by Dr. Ash Pachauri, director and founder of the Center for Human Progress, different play activities aimed at prevention were carried out where […]
Meet our Staff: Fernando Martinez
Fernando began working on HIV prevention and treatment almost two decades ago in Mexico City, through the non-profit La Casa de La Sal, where he worked with HIV-positive children. Since then, he has not steered away from this important mission. He came to SETAC less than three years ago after nine years collaborating with Puerto […]
SETAC Begins GRINDR Counseling Program
SETAC, Puerto Vallarta’s LGBTQ Community Center, has launched a pilot counseling program through the popular gay and bisexual men social network, Grindr, offering information related to HIV, sexually-transmitted infections, PrEP, and identity- and relationship-related situations. To implement the program, a SETAC volunteer counselor goes online starting at noon and continuing through the evening, interacting with […]
SETAC Welcomes New Psychologist
SETAC, Puerto Vallarta’s LGBTQ Community Center, recently welcome a new staff member, clinical psychologist Ismael Rossi, who graduated from the National University in Rosario, Argentina, and who relocated to Puerto Vallarta three months ago, along with his husband, Nicolas. “We were both faculty members in Argentina,” he commented. “We decided to vacation in Puerto Vallarta […]
SETAC Promotes PrEP on the Radio
SETAC Executive Director, Paco Arjona, was interviewed for the XQ28 radio show, broadcast from Guadalajara University in Puerto Vallarta, where he talked about the implementation of the United Nations PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) program. In conversation with radio host Edgar Treviño, Arjona explained that PrEP is an antiretroviral medication used to treat patients with HIV, and […]
