BASIDA

BASIDA, a charitable, non-profit making association, that has been declared as a Public Utility since 1996, has the general aim of providing attention to needy people from biopsychosocial point of view, with a scope of performance at a local, regional and national level. BASIDA is a member of FVOECAM (Federation of Voluntary Enlistment Entities of CAM); PPVS (Platform for the Promotion of Voluntary Enlistment in Spain); FEDERATION OF AIDS ENTITIES OF CAM PLUS MADRID; SCAIDS (State Coordinating Committee of AIDS). BASIDA was founded in 1989 with the desire of joining forces to alleviate the problems which are posed by the illness: • The progressive increase in the number of affected people. • The nonexistence of a vaccine or of any effective treatment. • The characteristics of its special risk of transmission. • The exclusion. • The population of prisoners: a great percentage of prisoner population has been or is A.D.V.P. ; and has possibilities of being HIV-positive or of getting the virus while they are shut away, (blood transmission or sexual transmission). Moreover, BASIDA is an answer for those people who have few possibilities or no chance of getting out of prison. The lack of social centres, the denial of the families and the fear of the same families of a possible transmission of the disease, often means that these people are in prisons during the "terminal stage" of the illness, with a lack of suitable conditions to be cared for.