2024-07-22 00:00:00
“We were already further ahead,” Ullmann told the Bavarian media group’s newspapers (Monday editions). “We want to transform the Federal Institute for Health Education into a public health institute to strengthen education again. There were successful campaigns, sometimes very funny, especially from German Aids Aid, which is missing today. I also miss the story .comprehensive health literacy teaching at all levels.” It is important that people know about the risk, get tested and, in the case of risk groups, also receive PrEP antiretroviral therapy, said the health policy spokesperson of the FDP parliamentary group.
“But many people associate HIV testing with stigma – that shouldn’t be the case.” According to the FDP politician, there is a lack of adequate care, especially in rural areas. “We also need to promote the availability of PrEP therapy, especially in the rural regions of Germany,” said Ullmann, who is a doctor and university professor of infectious diseases in Würzburg. “The expertise is focused on urban areas. We hope that access to telemedicine will be improved, but also the further development of medication towards an injection that is administered, for example, once a year.” When asked whether PrEP should be more widely promoted in general, the FDP member of the Bundestag responded positively: “Anyone who has many sexual partners or engages in risky sexual practices may in danger. What is dramatic is that a third of the patients in Germany are newly diagnosed “The infection has already weakened the immune system, so the diagnosis was made very late. It should give us something to think on.” The World AIDS Conference is taking place in Munich this week.
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