Thirty years ago, an HIV infection was mostly fatal. Since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s until 2016, about 39 million people worldwide have died as a result of HIV / AIDS, and of that, about 30,000 of them were in Germany. HIV is an abbreviation and means „human immunodeficiency virus“. HIV damages the immune system so that the body can no longer fight invading pathogens such as bacteria, fungus infections or viruses. In the worst case, certain life-threatening illnesses occur, for example, severe pneumonia. Then it is called AIDS.
0/90/90/90 – until 2020
%
no discrimination
%
of all HIV infected people are diagnosed
%
of all people living with HIV shall receive antiviral treatment
%
of all diagnosed people shall be and stay under the detection level
0 = no discrimination
Fear of exclusion and rejection is a common reason why people decide not to take an HIV test. People with HIV are still experiencing whispering behind their back, friends turning away or bullying in the workplace. Even if superiors respond openly and understandingly, they usually do not want their employees to reveal their infection to their colleagues and clients. Also in health care HIV patients are often discriminated against – even where they expect the most professional handling of the infection: in medical and dental practices, hospitals and dental clinics, etc. Patients often report, for example, that they only get the last appointment of the day when they visit the dentist, on the grounds that the equipment, the treatment chair or the treatment room must be specially cleaned afterwards. This is absurd considering the fact that other patients who are unaware of their infections are potentially a much greater risk.
Of course, for HIV testing to be part of health care and more people to be tested, it is important that people with HIV no longer be discriminated against and marginalized.
90 = 90 % of all HIV infected people are diagnosed
Far too rarely, do treating physicians ask their patients about sexual risks they have taken or advise them to take an HIV test. Often, doctors do not even consider that HIV could be the cause of certain symptoms of their patients, and therefore they do not offer an HIV test. For example, HIV is often diagnosed only at the AIDS stage with severe symptoms (so-called „late-presenters“). The message of the campaign is therefore: Anyone who has had an HIV risk, should be tested. Those who generally have an increased risk should go to the test once a year. Anonymous tests are offered by health authorities and the “Aidshilfen”.
90 = 90 % of all people living with HIV
shall receive antiviral treatment
For people with health insurance in Schleswig-Holstein, or Germany, this isn’t a problem. However, there are more and more people in Germany who are not insured for a variety of reasons. The therapy costs are too high to be paid out of one‘s own pocket and so access to therapy for these people is denied. The result is the proliferation of AIDS and other HIV infections, which could have been easily prevented by medications. In the opinion of the “Aidshilfen”, politicians should create new solutions to enable these people access to HIV therapy.
90 = 90 % of all diagnosed people shall be and stay under the detection level
This way the infection cannot be passed on to others.
For more than 30 years: Aids-Hilfe Kiel e. V.
Another important task of Aids-Hilfe Kiel is prevention. This includes information stands at festivals and disco events, butis especially active in schools. Since 2001, the Aids-Hilfe has been traveling through schools and other educational institutions with their interactive course „Love, Sex and More …“. This course examines different topics like HIV/Aids, other sexually transmitted infections, condoms and contraception, etc. In it adolescents and young adults (from the 8th year onwards) can with their own sexuality, and through their own experimentation, participation and discovery learn about potential risks, real risks and how to chose protection options. In close cooperation with Aids-Hilfe Neumünster, Aids-Hilfe Kiel offers a hands-on course not only in Kiel, but also in the surrounding countryside. In 2016, it reached 53 school classes reaching 1,250 students. The hands-on course has recently been requested by refugee organizations for groups of young unaccompanied refugees. Puberty often shifts among these young people because they were unable to develop and grow like children in their country as a result of war and flight. The prevention course can help to clarify their questions and uncertainties.
If you are looking for information in your native language on the internet, you will find interesting information on sexual health in German, English, French, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Farsi, Bulgarian, Polish, Albanian, Romanian, Spanish and Dutch at www.zanzu.de.
Anonymous telephone counseling is offered by the HIV Center of the Frankfurt University Hospital in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Thai, Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo, Kisuaheli and Luganda. On the website www.helpline-online.de you can see on which days information is given in your language.
Aids-Hilfe Kiel e.V.
Königsweg 19 · 24103 Kiel
Telefon 0431-5 70 58-0
www.aidshilfe-kiel.de
Mo. 10–13 Uhr · Mi. 13–16 Uhr · Do. 12–18 Uhr
Beratungszeiten nach Vereinbarung
Anonyme bundesweite
Telefon- und Onlineberatung
der Aidshilfen
Telefon 0180-33 194 11
9 ct./Min. aus dem deutschen Festnetz,
max. 42 ct./Min. aus deutschen Mobilfunknetzen
Mo.–Fr. 9–21 Uhr · Sa.–So. 12–14 Uhr
www.aidshilfe-beratung.de
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Informationen zur sexuellen Gesundheit
in deutscher Gebärdensprache sowie auf Deutsch, Englisch, Arabisch und 10 weiteren Sprachen.
www.zanzu.de
Anonyme Telefonberatung im HIV-Center des Universitätsklinikums Frankfurt auf Deutsch, Englisch und 10 weiteren Sprachen.
www.helpline-online.de
