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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Health Manne Lucha (Greens) hopes that ignorance about AIDS and prejudices against people with HIV will be further reduced.
Meanwhile, 18 percent of the population in Germany knew that the virus could not be transmitted under therapy, Lucha said, according to a statement on Saturday, on the occasion of World AIDS Day next Tuesday (December 1st).
"Education is the best protection against exclusion and discrimination and promotes positive togetherness without prejudice."
With an early diagnosis and an early start of treatment, a normal life can be led even with HIV, explains Maike Biewen, managing director of Aids-Hilfe Baden-Württemberg.
"With effective therapy, the virus cannot be transmitted even during sex without a condom."
Infected people can give birth to healthy children and are usually not restricted by the therapy - "but by the stigma attached to HIV."
According to an estimate by the Robert Koch Institute, 11,100 people were living with HIV in Baden-Württemberg at the end of 2019.
Around 10,000 of those infected were undergoing antiretroviral therapy, i.e. they were taking drugs that slow the HIV virus from multiplying in the body.
An estimated 990 people could be infected without knowing about it.
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RKI on HIV in Baden-Württemberg (status: end of 2019)