This year's World Health Day on 7 April 2011 under the theme "prevent and combat antibiotic resistance and". With her campaign wants the World Health Organisation (WHO) has obtained the efficacy of drugs for the treatment of malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV / AIDS for generations to come. Reason for this is the last in the decades around the world growing and most problematic development of resistance of pathogens to still successfully used drugs.
The Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) supports the concerns of the WHO, the emergence of highly resistant pathogens to counteract, and has also reflect the special importance of the prevention of infection through prevention, such as HIV / AIDS. Even the HIV virus can develop in inadequately controlled anti-retroviral therapy resistance. Such resistant pathogens can be transmitted to other people. So far this danger in Germany is relatively low, as carry HIV competence centers and specialized practices, HIV therapy to the best science-based standards. Globally, these high-quality HIV treatment is not guaranteed everywhere, and the risk of developing resistance increases. This also has consequences for Germany, since resistant pathogens are mobile with infected people and can be transferred anywhere.
"Germany is not immune against resistant HIV viruses", warns Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Pott, director of the Federal Centre for Health Education. "Therefore shall remain, prevention before treatment ', because the surest protection against infection is still the condom."
Thanks to more than 25 years of continuous preventive work of Federal Centre for Health Education and the German AIDS-Hilfe, Germany is in the number of new HIV infections in Europe at the lowest place. "However, we must not slacken our efforts. in a globalized world in which AIDS for many years to a life-threatening disease, it is essential to stabilize the AIDS prevention has been achieved and if possible expand, "said Elisabeth Pott.
Source: BZgA
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