More prevention and early detection. This is the simple but effective recipe that has allowed Germany to have one of the lowest rates of HIV infection in Europe. In Germany, about 73 thousand people live with this disease, of which 59 thousand are men and 14 thousand are women. In 2011 the number of new cases were 2700: – 700 compared to five years ago. One sunbeam whose causes lie mainly in the fact that infected people come into care first than they did in the past and 80% regularly take antiretroviral drugs. On the other hand, the Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (Federal Centre for Health Education) reports that the many awareness campaigns have had the expected result. Just think, for example, 87% of Germans between 16 and 44 years old usually use condoms compared to 65% of the mid-nineties. A fight on several fronts, which also involves the federal Government. Which has allocated 12 million Euros for prevention, and 1.6 for scientific research on AIDS. The data are from a publication of the Robert Koch Institut.
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