A supervised home related to HIV / AIDS affected people in the newly built housing project in the Neuss road 675 in Köln-Weiden. Owner is the 'stay positive' German AIDS Foundation gGmbH, operator of the Aids Cologne, whose advice and support offered to use the residents there. The German AIDS Foundation is very pleased that at the formal opening of the house Betty Wulff is present in order to obtain information about the project and to hold talks with the residents. "I am particularly keen to support this important work of the German AIDS Foundation for assisted living. People who suffer from severe limitations due to infections experienced in the housing project grant, aid, stabilization, and can therefore draw hope for a better future, "said Mrs. Wulff. The CEO of the German AIDS Foundation, Dr. Christoph Uleer welcomed, particularly that Bettina Wulff will continue to be committed to the Foundation.
In the house people are living with HIV / AIDS nine apartments and a group room. The project is aimed at all those who can no longer cope with their everyday lives alone and need support and guidance. The German AIDS Foundation noted in recent years an increased demand for services for assisted living. Therefore, the establishment of supervised accommodation for the Aids Foundation and the partner is an important focus. "The aging of people with HIV and AIDS poses new challenges. Most HIV-positive people by virtue of his biography of no family networks which could take over the care and support, "says Dr. Ulrich Heide, managing director of the Foundation. Many HIV-infected women and men also turn to the Aids Cologne with the request for adequate and affordable housing. "So it's no surprise that all nine apartments are rented and are available in the coming weeks," said Michael Schumacher, managing director of the AIDS Cologne. Particularly important is that the co-operation in the neighborhood with respect and without discrimination.
Better be treated with antiretroviral drugs for the interested parties while a longer life, the burden long-term therapy, but increasingly the health of part of the HIV-infected people: a growing group suffers from side effects of therapy and concomitant diseases of the infection. Added to come often financial hardship, isolation and difficulties in coping with everyday life. The housing projects as a protected area offer people the opportunity to integrate socially again and make new contacts. At best help support and stabilize the residents once again gained independence. In North Rhine-Westphalia, where around 14,000 of some 70,000 affected live in Germany, most HIV-infected people, the demand for residential places is very high. With the new Cologne, the Foundation responded to the increasing demand for a safe living environment. Against the Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from charity art auctions initiated ART AIDS end 2008, with revenues of 420,000 € the financial basis for the project.
Source: Ondamaris.de
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