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Dossier

Dossier

Aids

More than 30 years after the Aids epidemic began, around 37 million people worldwide now live with the HI virus. KfW Stories focuses on the fight against HIV and Aids. You can read in our dossier what creative paths are taken every day to advance prevention work in the countries particularly hit, to protect those affected from exclusion and to give infected people access to essential medicines.

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On our website, pictures taken, among others, by the following photographers/photo agencies are used:

Agentur photothek.net, Deutsche Messe Hannover, Andreas Arnold, Jörg Böthling, Dominik Butzmann, Carsten Costard, Susanne Esche, Charlie Fawell, Rendel Freude, Torsten George, Gaby Gerster, David Greedy, Peter Himsel, Barbara Högner, Frank Homann, Fred Hoogervorst, Steffen Jagenburg (BRANSCH EUROPE), Thomas Klewar, Studio Kohlmeier , Florian Kopp, Georg Lopata, Jürgen Lösel, Kirsten Milhahn, Rüdiger Nehmzow, Rolf Obertreis, Rubén Arnaldo Farina Ortiz, Holger Peters, Joachim Röttgers, Mika Schmidt, Bernhard Schurian, Jens Steingässer, Pietro Sutera, Uwe Tölle, Jan Zappner.

Fotolia.com: amandare, Yuri Arcurs, Kitch Bain, Ingo Bartussek, Sergio Donà, drizzd, Dmitry Ersler, eyewave, Zoltán Futó, Eric Gevaert, Fotolia XXV, Friedberg, goodluz, Dirk Hoffmann, imageteam, Christian Jung, Abdelhamid Kalai, Sergej Khakimullin, Vladimir Kolobov, krizz7, Kzenon, lumen-digital, marog-pixcells, Mindwalker, Miredi, mirpic, Nebuto, Tino Neitz, Christian Pedant, Franz Pfluegl, prognone, Gina Sanders, Henry Schmitt, spree berlin, SVLuma, Kheng Guan Toh, tom, Torbz, typomaniac, VRD, Joachim Wendler, Sreedhar Yedlapati.

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Karebo Streetworker

An empowering network

The Activate! Network brings together people who are pushing ahead with projects in their communities in order to reduce the risk of an infection with HIV. People like Karabo, who is a street worker and distributes bandages to schoolgirls. In our video you can find out why.

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Activate! staff and participants

Hope at the Cape

More than seven million people in South Africa are infected with HIV. Young people in particular are affected by the epidemic. This is why they are the focus of Activate!, a programme supported by KfW. We present the project to you in our video.

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Screenshot HIV map

Aids in numbers

Around 37 million people worldwide are infected with HIV. There are still regions that are particularly hard hit by the Aids epidemic. And those in which new infections are on the rise again. Our interactive map shows the spread of HIV worldwide.

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A condom is shown during a hiv prevention seminar for priests and other listeners

”We have reached a crossroads“

The reports on HIV and AIDS often appear to contradict one another. Our expert Dr Kai Gesing explains the current danger posed by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and how to interpret the numbers on our interactive world map.

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Famous athletes in Niger campaign for family planning and HIV prevention

Strong men for condoms

A surprising marketing idea: famous athletes in Niger campaign for family planning and HIV prevention. As a result, the demand for contraceptives has risen sharply in Niger.

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