2023-11-30 14:49:52
Berlin is pursuing the clear goal of not only combating AIDS in our city by 2030, but also ending it. In 2016, the state of Berlin joined the Fast-Track Cities initiative. The international initiative aims to reduce the number of HIV infections to zero by 2030. In order to achieve this goal, Berlin has also put a lot of things into motion in the past year:
• Advice and care for people with HIV and/or hepatitis who have fled Ukraine was ensured.
• A large number of HIV-positive people who do not have health insurance coverage were provided with antiretroviral drugs to prevent the infection from being passed on to third parties.
• Homeless or homeless people, many of whom also use drugs, have become the focus of prevention and testing work, as a study showed that this group has very high rates of infection with HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases and hepatitis.
• Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which can protect particularly vulnerable groups from HIV infection, will continue at approximately this year’s levels in 2024 and 2025.
• In order to discuss the next steps in ending AIDS in Berlin, a round table on the Fast Track City Berlin initiative was held several times under the leadership of the State Secretary responsible for health.
Against the background of these successes, Berlin was awarded the Circle of Excellence Award for Europe by the Fast-Track City Institute for its activities at this year’s global conference in Amsterdam. In Europe alone there are now over 130 cities that have joined the network.
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