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Summary

1. Entrance to Italy
2. Permanence in Italy
3. Employment
4. Social security and assistance
5. Health
   1. Foreigners with regular residence permit
   2. Foreigners waiting to regularize their position
   3. Foreigners with regular residence permit
   4. How does health assistance work
   5. Vaccinations
   6. Services in Frosinone
6. School
7. Useful information

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5.6 SERVICES IN FROSINONE

1. Family planning centre
2. Treatment of AIDS
3. Treatment of tubercolosis
4. The department 3d services
5. Multi-ethnic consultory
6. Operating unit for deteined people

5.6.1 FAMILY PLANNING CENTRE

The Consultorio Familiare (Family planning centre) is a public socio-health service that carries out prevention, information and social, health and psychological services, with the help of qualified professionists at different levels: social workers, health assistance, midwife, psychologist, gynaecologist, paediatrician.

This centre is at the disposition of individuals, couples, groups, families for the following reasons:

• maternity and paternity and use of contraceptive methods;
• pregnancy;
• preparation courses to a serene childbirth, home assistance after childbirth;
• sterility;
• prevention of female genital tumour and sexually transmitted diseases;
• consulence and assistance to couples who want to marry, with meeting in order to prevent couples relationship problems, sexuality, hereditariness of syndromes and diseases and illustration in a clear and complete way of the utility of compulsory or recommended vaccinations in prevision of pregnancy;
• sexuality in all the life cycle of an individual;
• menopause and its social health and psychological effects;
• health and control of new-born and child, their psychological and social development, hygiene and infancy alimentation;
• teenager period (14-24 years), in order to show all sexual effects, so as to live more serenely with others and face eventual personal and family problems;
• problems of couple, relation ship with children and their psycho-physical development;
• abortions (law 194/1978) within third month of pregnancy. For abortion it is necessary to undergo a pregnancy test after menstruation delay of at least 10 days and then request certificate of abortion at the Consultorio Familiare. After third month of pregnancy and within sixth month of pregnancy, abortion is allowed only if its prosecution or birth involves serious danger for mother's life or in the case of verified anomalies or malformations of unborn child.

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5.6.2 TREATMENT OF AIDS

The Health Unit of Frosinone has a Centro di Riferimento per la prevenzione e la cura dell'Aids (Reference centre for the prevention and treatment of Aids). Following services are available:

TEST

The test for verification of HIV infection is available from Monday to Saturday, from 8.30 to 13.30. No medical prescription is required and test is free. Before test and at delivery of results a consultation is offered to people interested.

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

At the centre advice and assistance can be found for an eventual hospitalisation for insertion in Day Hospital.

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE

The centre offers also psychological assistance and support therapy to external relatives and to patients, affected with HIV. Family members of aids patients may require psychological assistance.

SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

The centre offers to aids patients a consultation for the carrying out of bureaucratic procedures (request of cartella clinica, ticket exemptions, previdential and assistance boards matters...). The centre is also in contact with other territorial services: voluntary associations, residential and reception structures, structures devoted to the home treatment of patients.

HOME ASSISTANCE

For patients residing in the territory it is possible to be treated at home, in accordance with modes dictated by the Regione Lazio.

INFORMATION AND TRAINING

The centre organises training courses for health operators, distributes pamphlets and informative material, offers primary prevention to health users and operators.

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5.6.3 TREATMENT OF TUBERCOLOSIS

TBC is a contagious disease that involves mainly the lungs. Disease is caused by a bacteria which is expelled by sick patient under form of tiny drops of saliva by coughing. These droplets are inhaled by healthy people, some of which fall ill.

Symptoms of TBC are: fever, internal cough, sleepiness, loss of weight, catarrh with traces of blood.

If these symptoms are present, it is necessary to refer to the Unità Operativa AIDS e Malattie Infettive della ASL di Frosinone (AIDS and Contagious Diseases Operating Unit of the ASL of Frosinone).

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5.6.4 THE DEPARTMENT 3D SERVICES

The Dipartimento 3D (Department 3D) of Local Health Unit has the following Operative Units:

• OU Youth Hardship which deals with prevention and with the youth hardship both on territory and within schools of the province;
• OU Extra Communitarian which coordinates the Multi-Hetnic Consultory activity and promotes social and health integration
• OU Employment, which promotes working
• OU Deteined people, which promotes services in favour of detained people and of once detained people;
• OU Youth crimes, which promotes social integration for minor aged signalled by the Minor Court;
• OU SERT (Drug-addiction service), which organizes, promotes and coordinates health promotion activities, recovery and prevention of addiction deriving from drug, alcohol and pharmacological abuse. The SERT offers the following services:
  • physical and psychological health status control and eventual certification of drug-addiction state;
  • psycho-socio-rehabilitation program (individual, family or group psychological assistance, social assistance, methadone administration, disintoxication therapies);
  • insertion into recovery communities;
  • assistance to drug-addicted prisoners;
  • prevention, information and training on drug-addiction problems.

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5.6.5 MULTI-ETHNIC CONSULTORY

An orientation office on health services for foreigners has been opened at the ASL of Frosinone by the Department 3D (OU Extra Communitarian and ethnic minorances), in Via A. Fabi. For any problem or doubt relative to health and protection of rights, foreigners may refer to this office. The multi-ethnic consultory also works to stimulate a territorial resources activation, including foreigners communities on the territory. It represents an important crossroad point for all of the operators dealing with foreigners promoting debates, adequate circulation of information and legal orientation.

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5.6.6 OPERATING UNIT FOR DETEINED PEOPLE

The Department 3D within the ASL in Frosinone has activated a specific service for the assistance of detained and once detained people. This service promotes:

• health care within jails, through health services, prevention activities, support for psychic disease (reception interviews, social service and psychological interviews, medical controls, definition of individual programs for each detained people, practices for the issue of the health card, information seminaries and vocational forming courses);
• concrete and available health and rehabilitation programs in the origin territories;
• access to work for people once detained through the involvement of schools, professional and vocational forming courses, Centre for Employment, associations of categories.

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