Prevention and screening centers Bouches-Du-Rhône

Even in Marseille, the second largest city in France, there are few family planning centres. Four, since the centre of the Francois-Harvest Street, which had several years of uncertainty, closed definitively. On the other hand, at National Boulevard, the premises are new, the reception hotlines with medical practitioners are frequent and without appointment (Monday morning and afternoon Monday to Friday). To obtain consultation with a doctor, possibly an abortion orientation, an appointment must be made.

A collective of associations, Asud was born in Paris almost 20 years ago at the worst time of the AIDS epidemic among drug users. Today, the association is playing on words to seriously ask if it can be considered as a group of drug patients, an active queue of militant patients for better care or a meeting of citizens, users and/or former drug users, who for 2 decades hammer the same message: consumer repression is unproductive in public health. We need more moyesn to greet people who are addicted, to accompany them towards abstinence or substitution without judging them, and to propose alternatives to life. Asud Marseille, which has just changed its premises, provides anonymous and free reception hotlines, participates in the global prevention and risk reduction programme, including the distribution of sterile single-use syringes, the recovery of used equipment. The individual health and social aspect is increasing with collective activities, writing workshops, speaking groups, moments of conviviality, meals exchanged.

The Paoli-Calmettes Institute for Cancer Control (Centre for the Control of Cancer) is pursuing its work of prevention with renewed campaigns, information meetings, an Internet site full of multimedia documents. Screening programmes organise the reception of persons affected by risk. Screening allows the early identification of injury, more effective handling and better therapeutic chances. The timely breast diagnosis, the quick consultation appointments, the cancer research centre, master's teaching, the follow-up of oncology phd complete the device of this active centre where care is also provided.