In the case of HIV / Aids, we think first of all to adults. But what is with children and young people? Worldwide, there are about 1.8 million. Not all of them have a Chance at a normal life.
Around 90 percent of all children with HIV live in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, and only half of them receive the required medical care. According to “Doctors without borders” were killed around the world by 2017 approximately 110,000 children in Aids-related diseases. Latest Figures give cause for hope. “There are significantly fewer new infections in newborn and babies”, says Rudi Taneden, spokesman for UNICEF Germany. “In 2017 there were 430.000, fifteen to sixteen years earlier twice as many.”
On a good way
In Germany, approximately 600 HIV-positive children and adolescents live. Add to this the number of unreported cases. New infections there are hardly any. By a HIV-Screening in pregnancy, doctors can prevent a possible Transfer to the child at birth. The expectant mother receives before anti-retroviral drugs. You can reduce the viral load. By an Emperor, the infection can be prevented cut. “The kid gets to be on the safe for 2 weeks a prophylactic juice administered,” explains Dr. Robin Kobbe. He is a specialist in children’s and youth medicine at the University hospital in Hamburg-Eppendorf. The anti-retro viral juice additional protection for the newborn.
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How do I tell my child?
In the year 2018 with HIV are discriminated against-Positive, in spite of intense reconnaissance. Many parents try to keep secret from others, that your child is HIV-positive. “The biggest fear of parents is that their children may be rejected by others,” says Tanji Sthamer of the Association of child and youth protection, Hamburg.
“These Fears we try to take the parents,” says the social worker. “We also tell you how important it is to stay with the children at the truth and to tell you no lies. Eventually this comes out and this means a great loss of confidence.”
Tanji Sthamer advises that children as early as possible about your disease and inform the child-and in very small steps. “It is not important, what is the name of the disease, but perhaps say: ‘Your blood is sick’. Often, children want to know why you again and again, the blood is removed. It will examine, for example, whether the drugs hit. “I have to explain to the child why it has to the doctor again,” says Sthamer.
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Meanwhile, there are very good drugs, but not all are approved for use in children. This is a Problem, says UNICEF spokesman Taneden. “Drugs that work in the child age, need to be adapted for young people then. Here much research is still needed.”
“Not in the mood anymore”
HIV-positive and in puberty. The means for adolescents and parents, but also for the Doctors of the particular Situation. “Here it comes, understandably, often to mental health problems,” describes Kobbe the Situation. “Often the medications are taken irregularly or not at all. Especially in the case of non-consistent use can lead to resistance formation. In order for students to use on duration of treatment possibilities for the future.”
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Not infrequently the young people rebelling against their daily medication, often do not want to understand how important they are. The tablets are not taken regularly, it may be that the viral load rises again.
Just in time, however, it is important to take the medication regularly, because it is also the time to make in the young people’s first sexual experiences. It is important to know for those Concerned: The HIV infection is, and remains. But thanks to good therapy, the diagnosis of “HIV”, at least in Germany and Western Europe today is not a death sentence anymore.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDSAward-winning: 120 BPM
In the past year, the Drama “120 BPM won” the “Grand Jury prize” at the world’s most important film festival in Cannes. Director Robin Campillo tells of the love of two young AIDS activists. The French Director is a sensitive and cinematically interesting approach to a difficult topic.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDSFirst of all, serene: Sorry Angel
Campillos country man Christophe Honoré, the most recent Film on the topic of AIDS, “Sorry Angel” celebrated at the film festival in Cannes (2018) world premiere. The Film tells of the friendship of two gay men at the beginning of the 1990s in France. Honoré also deals in novels and theater pieces with the theme.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDSDisplacement: Longtime Companion (1989)
American and French films, the first with the theme. “Longtime Companion” by Norman René is considered to be one of the first productions, which described the HI-Virus triggered a disease. It is the story of eight gay New York friends at the beginning of the 1980s. A theme of the film: the displacement of AIDS in individuals and in society.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDSAutobiographical: Wild Nights (1992)
The theme of the displacement of AIDS, it is also in “Wild nights”. The French Director and starring Cyril Collard, had published his auto-biographically colored novel in 1989, and three years later from the fabric of a Film. In the title role Collard, plays a Bisexual who has no consideration for himself and his Partner. Collard died in 1993.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDSOscar Decorated: Philadelphia (1993)
Jonathan Demme’s Film “Philadelphia” was the first major Hollywood production that AIDS has brought to a wide audience on the screen. Tom Hanks plays a lawyer whose position is terminated because he is ill. In court he wants to sit down to the Weir. The Film is melodramatic and sentimental, but very effectively staged. AIDS was now arrived in the big Hollywood movies.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDSSemidoku fragmentary: …and life goes on (1993)
Philadelphia was in the style of big Hollywood movies are staged, dam of in the same year launched “…and the life goes on a ride” by Roger Spottiswoode another way. The movie tried to use the documentary resources, the spread of the disease to many different locations. The young AIDS researcher Dr. Don Francis, played by Matthew Modine.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDSControversial: Kids (1995)
With documentary resources, the movie “Kids”, which was created two years later worked. Director Larry Clark designed the Panorama of a youth culture in New York in the 1990s. Sex is one of the main topics of the young girls and boys, the subject of AIDS. Controversial the Film was, because he developed with underage performers to very drastic scenes.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDSMelodramatic: All about my mother (1999)
Spain Director-As Pedro Almodóvar told in 1999, in the for him typical style of life, Suffering and the love of a handful of protagonists in Madrid and Barcelona. “All about my mother” is a Melodrama with a lot of feeling and Emotion, gender roles, and social prejudices. Also in “All about my mother” plays the theme of AIDS a Central role.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDSReview: We were the witnesses (2007)
In the early 80s, the Frenchman André Téchiné looked back in, “We were witnesses.” In France, the disease spreads, the protagonists, the Téchiné presents the viewer will be confronted in different situations with AIDS. “We are witnesses” were not celebrated at the Berlinale for the Premiere, but managed, despite Stars like Emmanuelle Béart the jump in the German cinemas.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDSAIDS Global: Same Same But Different (2009)
The German cinema dealt with AIDS. Rosa von Praunheim, the 1986 fact, in typical anarchist fashion with “A Virus knows no morals” is very early and first. Director Detlef Buck turned in 2009, the movie “Same Same But Different”, which shows a love between a young German (David Kross, and our image) and a Cambodian prostitute.
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Live and love with HIV: films on the subject of AIDSActors Movie: Dallas Buyers Club (2014)
Had great success Jean four years ago, the Film “Dallas Buyers Club” of the canadian Director-Marc Vallée. Matthew McConaughey (R) and Jared Leto Shine as two HIV-infected protagonists, who strive in the America of the 1980s, effective AIDS drugs. For the two actors, the Oscars 2014 awards for best male performer.