Hand they have a lot of people tested hiv positive and on the other hand they treat it with the highest medical standards and thats very positive but how can one lead a normal life with a potentially deadly virus and how can we protect ourselves from being infected and will we be able to defeat the virus one day and talking about this today with a chevy researcher hendrik rick were meeting at the famous German Museum of technology in berlin. And you brought great news to bill and with you because it seems that there might be nation against h. M. P. Well its a little bit too early to say you probably are going to have a vaccine but there are currently 2 studies running to see a potential vaccine might work all of them have been tested in humans that they are safe and and using immune responses. This is looks like really good data at the same time they have been tested in the monkeys and in particular one of them shows in monkeys the really high i think is the which suggests or gives the hope that this might actually also work in humans but we will only know in 2021 or 2022 those results and then we will know if youre going to have a fix seen on it and if there will be a vixen will it be effective and safe. Well. For clinical studies that we normally 1st test and that has been done for that vaccine the 1st test its going to be safe so all these studies have been performed and all of those studies have shown that these specks scenes that are currently on the development of totally safe there are minor complications sometimes like for any vaccine or any action like for example some rash at the site of injections but this is totally normal so right now there is no vaccine but there is something called pred which is the exposure profile texas which can prevent hiv infection so could you please explain the difference between those 2 well so the preexposure prophylaxis is a pretty new development of preventing hiv infection and its really a good and efficacious tool that we have so if its taking daily and correctly we have to be at preventing each of the infection in over 95 percent so this is a medication its a chemo profit axis that has to be taking every day seen as basically an injection that trains the immune system like a soccer team to combat the virus comes in so its basically training on the one side the immune system on the other and youre giving a medication to prevent infection thanks for now well continue to talk in just a moment ill be back unfortunately we have to wait a little longer for index nation against h o d and until then we have to protect ourselves against an infection in other ways in 1903 in educational pamphlet was published in the u. S. Its titled how to have sex in an epidemic you see with sex and international t. V. In this publication the term safe sex was used for the 1st time see for 6 this was the year of 1903 i was 12 years. Years old program until today there are 3 problems reservations ignorance misinformation activists fighting for Sex Education by various means. To be home hes my just the king of condoms. We join him in his kingdom. In an area he can hear africas largest audience loud. This is my kingdom is my territory this is my palace i can mia every day and use what you call the. First. I didnt is to engage the community to love my little ship with them love what you call trust building and i think them on the whole to use quandong expanding did they get is from the i do the the most literal soul of a gotta draw from the most literal everybody will be depending to the need to have people who want an immediate recall want one thing that. Eva king of condoms started advocating for safe sex and the importance of using condoms after high school after losing a close friend to a change stanley decided to start honest and open conversations about hiv with as many people as possible to draw peoples attention here is this i catch him going out feet this very attractive and its also made me feel proud that im the king and. People know very good level at a low level they feel like king is high level coming from the slums its very up like to me to them. In the last 2 decades hiv infections in kenya have to creased by Health Organizations like al v c t health who supply the king of condoms with well condoms have helped these efforts. About 5. 6 percent of the population still carries the virus and recently a new worrying trend has been much. Too weve noticed that now among the new infections theres an increased number among young people generally so here were talking about age about 15 to 24 years who are at highest risk of infection in poor settlements like kibera infections among young people particularly on the right. I came to realize that these are chartered. By guinea because the same goals when you ask them why why what happened theyll tell you i was obese man he bought for me the he started paying me dental started when do they present this man was talking of the. King of condoms and his project supply girls with green funding its full of digital so that they can sell the crops even the small income that helps young girls become independent and less likely to get in and save 618 year old lucky from idea is part of the project and part of having with a farming pad. They dont have to depend to those money league to. Smoke sexual. Activity so that you can get money to buy. Your food. Their confidence their courage to say no i cant support myself the king of condoms moves on to continue his Daily Mission to protect his kingdom kibera i can tell you why he told me. Hes an african and i was summoned to the same people living. Here in africa the power on that simple thing called the times. Needed to be christian i believe in need somebody who could now mark where he told me to be maybe we could. In the 1980 s. V. Infection was basically a death sentence especially terrible for children who were infected by their mothers during birth today things are different the virus can be kept in check with specific medication and the once deadly disease aids cannot break out those who are treated with those drugs in time have practically in normal Life Expectancy many people have been living with the virus for years some of them since birth. The fact that she has been bald now as even walking along here today is not something she takes for granted shes coming up for her 35th birthday and no one neither her family nor her doctors told that she would live this long. This for me and her friends so much im going way beyond the Life Expectancy they predicted for me were told that i would only live to the age of 4 and a half so every year is one more year that i not only survived but also experienced only. Shootin is thought to be the person whos lived with hiv the longest in all of europe her parents were both drug addicts and hiv positive she contract a different birth her parents both died and she was raised by her grandmother her life revolved around doctors appointments and heavy medication. In the small towns sharon grew up in she was ostracized not even accepted into kindergarten she was very lonely. My dont want to ask him for my grandmother try to compensate for all of the loneliness i felt there were a lot of experiences that i missed out on the experiences you get from being in a group but its still like that today and of course i also dont have that special friend from childhood who knows you better than anyone. Hiv is part of our daily life even so she even managed to finish school and train as a medical technical assistant. Sharon has been treated for the past 15 years by christophe stefan a senior physician at Frankfurt University hospital he conducts research in the field of hiv medicine and says great progress has been made. So its a target these days we have very many different therapies and quite a few single tablet therapies available that that means a combination therapy mixed into one pill so the patient takes one pill. Nowadays sharon also only takes one tablets a day. In the past she had to take up to 40 over the years she hadnt known her doctor have developed a Good Relationship and even hold educational events together at the university aimed specifically at young people as friends and which is when the shooting thats so i thought it was really brave of sharing to be so vocal and open to give advice and to talk about her personal experience and what its like. Me on to it was interesting hearing things from her point of view really impressive and. Even in the most difficult times she had never lost heart she continued to set herself new goals such as participating in the birdland marathon. Here and im now 34 and im now slowly understanding who i am and feel more at peace with myself and of course nowadays the illness doesnt play the same role as it used to im milonga struggling to survive each day. These days she has one main goal to simply enjoy life to its fullest. The United Nations originally wanted to get rid of aids by the year 2020 and they failed so they got a new deadline right now at 2030 so what is slowing us down in the fight against aids well the fight against aids is basically treatment of all individuals that are on. The positive the problem with this is you need to have therapies so you need to have funding to actually treat everybody with infected at the same time you also have to test everyone who or might be age of the infected and because of stigma and discrimination people do not like to get tested against hiv so you have basically 2 problems on the one inside a lack of funding to treat everyone and the on the other hand like stick man describing. Nation that prevents individuals from being tested unlike in western europe or in the United States and africa is made by hatred 6 rule transmission so what must be done to reduce numbers well so this test and treat is actually a very powerful tool of what we have so because we know that individuals that are hiv positive end up being treated begins. First of all they have an almost normal Life Expectancy then individual the hiv negative but more importantly they cannot transmit hiv to another person this treatment as prevention or task abbreviated is really powerful and thats a message that needs to go to out there because people should get tested and treated because they have a longer Life Expectancy and they cannot transmit hiv to another person theres still a lot of misinformation in this role and h o v so what are the biggest obstacles holding us back in the treatment i think one of the biggest obstacles the people are afraid of getting tested against hiv. Theres so much fear and stigma and discrimination surrounding nature be that individuals would rather like to die of aids than actually being tested but knowing that the person is not infectious that undetectable buyers means that the virus cannot be transmissible undetectable equals an transmissible is so powerful this is the message that needs to get out and condoms a very very effective very cheap why do we need Something Like a prick the preexposure prophylaxis anyway condoms are just not for everyone some people do not want to take quantums as they have problems with their direction taking a condom but at the same time for example the woman may not be. They are or their partner to that he is taking a quantum so these are all factors in individual might want to have another prevention methods and for those individuals the preexposure prophylaxis as an individual lies chemotherapy against hiv infection is a really powerful to think so much of this talk right now you continue talking just a moment unprotected sex is the most common way for the virus to be transmitted from person to person for a long time there were only 2 ways to protect yourself from being infected abstinence. And condoms but today there is prep the pre exposure prophylaxis dr streak just explained how it works prep is made to help reduce the virus worldwide. New york has set itself the goal of drastically reducing the number of fresh h. I. B. Infections on truvada tablets have proven to be an effective. Damon jacobs has been taking to vote every morning for 3 years the medication protects him against h. I. V. Infection the tablets have been available in the us as an aids prophylactic since 2012 and theyre covered by Health Insurance studies say it offers 99 percent immunity against hiv be. Put away with using it when i was using condoms it always felt like my status was dependent on somebody else it is a really important part of my daily routine starting the day cleaning like im in control i have agency im not going to be positive today. Truvada was originally developed to treat hiv infections if the medication is taken as a preventive measure its known as prep short for preexposure prophylaxis. Is part of new york 78 strategy its been responsible for a complete reversal in the number of new infections. How it grossman is a doctor and activist who also takes prep. If everybody who is at risk of infection goes on perhaps and everybody who is a tiny positive gets treatment and access to treatment and effective treatment then in one generation this epidemic ends without a back see without a cure without anything else and this is the 1st time that weve ever been able to say that person really has a prep user daemon jacobs has to have a blood test every 3 months. The medication has no side effects for most people but those with kidney disorders or osteoporosis arent allowed to take it since prep was introduced in 2012 the number of users has risen by 500 percent and infection rates are falling damon jacobs has set up a website to publicize truvada more widely. I spoke to a friend of mine about prep and he was like i wish you would have told me that im already positive that broke my heart so that is when i started a Facebook Group devoted to prep. Theres also some drastically needed change afoot in new yorks bronx district and hiv the hotspot homosexuality is still a to boo subject amongst many communities Certain Health centers offer anonymous hiv tests like Nonprofit Organization boom health hiv primarily infects young people aged 13 to 21 whom Health Targets its a message to high risk groups like Homeless People sex workers drug addicts and the partners of people with hiv its workshops teach these young people about h. L. V. Prophylaxis. I think one of the biggest stick my eyes about. That people have is that its marketed as a gauge but its something that can be used for everyone all types of identity you know sexual. Boom helps young clients talk about why people dont use condoms they like going to parties have fun and then situations happen that they dont we know some people dealing with for the station. Or Say Something they dont feel ok we call. He doesnt want to believe he moves like we were doing. Proponents claim that people who dont use condoms wouldnt take the tablet consistently either health says thats just prejudice its people like you who continue to create stigma and the fact that people can always come out because of their Sexual Identity or come out to their families about wanting to take a medication such as prep its the fear youre instilling in them the latest studies do indeed show that people take prep reliably even though no more than 25 percent of young people in the u. S. Use condoms. Instead of trying to force people to do something theyre not going to do and shame them in that process what prep allows us to do is to meet people where their. Us aids activists fought for a long time to get prepped licensed and marketed their commitment to save countless people from an h i v infection. In many countries the situation for each of you infected patients is very depressing theres hardly any counseling and not enough medication and those who are affected stigmatized and criminalized like in russia where the disease is has stopped and those who stand up for their rights can get into trouble the situation is especially dramatic for infected children. The day begins at 7 am i think i. Corelle Childrens Home in the russian city of chelyabinsk. The 1st everyone knows what to do. The same meds the same dosage morning and evening. 40 poisoned girls between the ages of 4 and 17 live here the ones who are hiv positive called. The ones who were negative me go seeking. The hiv positive kids lived in a separate area. The safe is how coverings you could wipe down there were no carpets. The dishes were soaked in basin was full of disinfectant though. It was very difficult to create a welcoming environment for these children. It took 6 years before almost off came to accept and respect them. Much. These days. And that is all play and live together in this unique Childrens Home. Theyre all growing up without a paddle. They know that theyre not at risk of being infected by the hiv positive kids even if one of them has an injury. The youngest always supervised by a caregiver. The older ones know that the hiv virus is fragile and immediately dies when it comes into contact with their huge. My friend sleeps in my room. Hiv positive one day before i knew about it he said i have to tell you something i made hiv positive. At 1st i was scared but then he explained how you get infected since then everything has been fine i treat him just like anybody else. A 3rd of the plough seeking have hiv positive parents many of whom are alcoholics or drug addicts and no longer have custody of their children some of them arent even aware that their children are here. The kids are well cared for and in a safe place they learn early on how to live responsibly and calmly with their infection they cope better than some adults. She got that one time my little ones were to summer camp on the 1st evening while they were having a bath the come to iraq to practice how to round the top hesitantly and peered at the children as if they might have for years or 2 had. On another occasion a colleague asked me you know you know what should i do they fall to support you with hiv i said lock him in the cellar she was confused what do you think i said just let him play with the others who. Came in the evening the children follow the same familiar routine as always the same meds the same dosage day and day out. Quite a few of the kids here have learning disabilities because of their mothers Substance Abuse before or during pregnancy. That will make life even tougher for them compounding the social stigma that can still attached to those who are hiv positive. All the more important then for them to be able to grow up with people who accept them as they are and give them the care they need. Its moved to the case when somebody is in fixed it there are currently drugs and keep the virus in check how effective are those drugs so those drugs extremely effective so most of them do not make any side effects or individuals can have a completely normal life on top of that is that when youre getting treated very early in infection and take polls regularly every day you will have a normal Life Expectancy like an individual who has been negative so you cannot in fact another person anymore and you have a normal Life Expectancy but why. Is researchers trying to develop a new kind of medication if the current medication is working so well well one problem with the current mood. Cation is that youre have to take a pill every day until the end of your life so people are constantly reminded of being age should be a positive the new development is to try to have like for example an injection every 6. 00 to 8. 00 weeks that is sufficient to treat hiv infection and even in the future via thinking about having a poll that you only have to take once a month or even half an implant in your eye that is sufficient to treat a should be infection and that needs to be exchanged once a year thank you so much for this interesting talks. Thats it for today im looking forward to seeing you next week im out. To. Go africa. Digitalisation in the pandemic. And online Payment System has gone from one of those motorcycle taxis back on the road after a months mom drive. Now the customers pay for the ride without cash. Africa. Struck dumb. This is some the. Story a stubborn rice farmer from thailand. Has problems. With. His credo no chemicals. His wife claims free 6. Am i boxed up. 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