From 6 to 8 November, free visits to Piazza del Popolo in Rome with the Prevention Village organized by the ETS Health Campus: 20 outpatients will be active with the possibility to carry out free controls in different medical specialties: endocrinology, cardiology, gynecology, andrology, urology, neurology, nephrology, vascular surgery. It will also be possible to perform mammographs for breast cancer screening, receive the kit for rectum cancer test or carry out controls for the papilloma virus. Also active doctors for insights into nutrition and mental health. Visiting hours: 6 November 2025 from 14.00 to 18.00 and in the days 7 – 8 November 2025 from 9.00-13.00 and from 14.00-18.00.
The initiative is launched by the APS-ETS Campus Salute, in collaboration with MODAVI, ASL ROMA 1, San Camillo Forlanini Hospitaller Company, OMCEO Roma, Department of Experimental Medicine – Sapienza University of Rome, Istituto Nazionale Malattie Infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani, Bruno Pharmaaceutici, Lo. Li. Pharma, Agunco and AMOlp Association, UPMC.
The Campus Salute is among the few Italian associations to be able to have a special advisory status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), obtained after a long accreditation process. This status allows NGOs to have a formal relationship with the UN, allowing them to participate in meetings, submit statements and access official services to support the work of the Council and other UN bodies. Not by chance, last September, during the UN Assembly, the association held its own prevention and awareness-raising activities in New York carrying out a week of free visits to the Italian-American community.
“Our mission is to spread the culture of prevention – explains Pasquale Antonio Riccio, president of the Health Campus – because there is a correlation between certain pathologies and the conditions of life in some suburbs. As I have had ways of highlighting also in the hearing of the Chamber of the past days, there is a phenomenon of health poverty with millions of Italians who give up care, but it is equally true that, although with its difficulties, ours is a health system that remains an excellence in the world. Indeed, our activity wants to be in support of the SSN and all the institutions, trying to propose and create networks that can achieve the common goal of the diffusion of the culture of prevention”.
Precisely in the direction of combining culture of prevention and care, it goes the recent approval in the Senate of the law that recognizes obesity as chronic disease by entering it among the Essential Levels of Assistance. The data is clear: 4 Italians out of ten are overweight, even a child out of three with a gap (which goes smoothing) but still existing between North and South
“Obesity – recalls Annamaria Colao, owner of the UNESCO Chair of Education for Health and Sustainable Development at the Federico II University of Naples and scientific manager of the Health Campus – is associated with chronic cardiovascular diseases, but also neurological and oncological. Aver approved a law that also allocates ad hoc funds means being able to identify targeted therapies for patients. We hope that sufficient funds will arrive to promote health from children to the elderly because there is no age limit for prevention.”.
“With the project of the Prevention Village and the collaboration with Campus Salute – says Francesco Piemonte, National President of MODAVI – we want to spread a true culture of prevention and well-being, starting with the youngest. Promoting health means educating to conscious choices and balanced lifestyles: a commitment that for us translates into concrete actions on the territories, to build a society more healthy, solidarity and responsible”.
Inside the Village of Prevention there will also be space for insights related to lifestyles, Tommaso Mandato, creator and organizer of the Festival of Sport Literature that in Rome will see its fifth edition, “through the Festival of Sports Literature we want to promote the importance of sport as a vehicle for healthy lifestyles and bearer of positive values for the growth of people”.
L’articolo Campus Salute, in Rome the Prevention Village: from 6 to 8 November free visits proviene da IlNewyorkese.
