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  • HIV community audience award for voices against discrimination

    With "AfroLebenVoice", the nationwide network of HIV-positive migrants has responded to discrimination. It received an award for this at the German-Austrian Aids Congress (DÖAK). Experiencing discrimination is one thing, portraying it is another. HIV …

  • "We have long since reached the limits of our capacity"

    The growing number of asylum seekers is not only overwhelming many local authorities, but is also causing problems for AIDS service organizations. Snapshots from Freiburg, Nuremberg and Oberhausen by Axel Schock They are fleeing war, violence and …

  • Living environment instead of green table

    Participatory research has been rather unusual in epidemiology to date. In a study on sexual health among Africans in Germany, the Robert Koch Institute is taking up this concept. Christina Laußmann spoke to Claudia Santos-Hövener. Claudia, you are …

  • Real-life theater scenes

    The mobile theater group of the AfroLebenPlus network presents a new play at the "Positive Encounters" in Kassel. By Axel Schock They need neither elaborate stage technology nor lavish backdrops. On the contrary, the amateur dramatics group from the …
  • AfroLebenVoice - A photo-voice project with HIV-positive migrants

    "I am more than HIV" - Pete's second spring

    In the AfroLebenVoice project, HIV-positive migrants took photos of their lives, told each other the stories "behind" these photos and, as a group, found out what they have in common and what needs to change. By Julian Vetten Pete's smile is terribly …
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    Among men - The Essen pilot project "black + male"

    As in most African countries, HIV is a big taboo in the African communities in Germany. Men in particular find this difficult. The "black + male" pilot project in Essen is therefore trying its very own approach to prevention. By Axel Schock HIV is …
  • Christian

    We leave no one hanging

    Christian almost died because he didn't want to admit that he had Aids. Today, he is fully back in life - and wants to educate heterosexuals about HIV I'll be dead soon anyway, thought Christian in 2007. He suspected that he was HIV-positive, and for …