Walter Belda

Walter Belda was born on June 20 in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo. Dermatologist and Sanitary Physician, professor at the Department of Epidemiology of the Faculty of Public Health of Universidade de São Paulo and responsible for the Area of ​​Sanitary Dermatology. He was a leader, scholar by vocation, bearer of an enviable scientific hierarchy. Great scholar of STD, including syphilis. His university career began as a supernumerary assistant at the Dermatology and Syphiligraphy Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of Universidade de São Paulo, having joined the teaching chair at the Chair of Venereology and Leprology at the Faculty of Hygiene and Public Health, led by Dr. José Maria Gomes. He participated in numerous epidemiological surveys on venereal diseases in the red-light areas of the capital and among workers. During the XV Brazilian Congress of Urology, in 1975, together with Drs. Corintho Santos and Altino Cattapan, he created the Brazilian UNION against Venereal Diseases, the mater cell of the Latin American UNION against Sexual Transmission Diseases (ULACETS).