Who are you and that is your field of work?
My name is Rodolfo, I come from Argentina and I'm a physician and did my residency in internal medicine in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I'm currently working at the Vaccination Center here in Canton of Zurich.
Do you like it here in Zurich?
I love it! I've been living here for three years and had the chance to work at an incredible place! I've learned so much. Not only Swiss German but also lots of information about Vaccination Campaigns and preventative medicine.
The Travel Clinic is affiliated with the COVID-19 Reference Vaccination Center, where the Swiss population is vaccinated against Covid. You have done many unique projects. Can you name a few and tell us how they came about?
Well, not only are we a Vaccination Center inside the Covid Vaccination Campaign, we also work together with our friends from Checkpoint in the Monkeypox Vaccination Campaign since the start in November. We had the chance to vaccinate over 6'000 people here in Switzerland against Monkeypox. That was a great challenge for us! Not only did we create the environment for everybody to be welcomed here to get the vaccination. We also worked with centres like for example Flora Dora, which is a center created for sex workers at Langstrasse, where we had the chance to get in contact with this population which is usually forgotten by our health care system.
Are there any other past, ongoing, or upcoming projects you'd like to bring attention to?
Yes definitely. There is a project - the same way we prevent infections like malaria and yellow fever - the idea is to apply the same idea to STI and sexual education before travelling. We know that people change behaviors when travelling and we wanna make sure they are informed enough to prevent infections with focus especially on HIV with prep and other STI's.
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