Annual Report 2019 Editor Life4me.plus to fight AIDS, Hepatitis C and Tuberculosis Dragonerstrasse 53 5600 Lenzburg Switzerland Telephone +41 62 892 24 90
[email protected] www.life4me.plus Content Introduction/summary 4 Motto of the year 5 Core activities 6 News 6 Collage column 7 Social media 8 Website 9 App 9 Campaign 10 Projects & Collaborations 11 MENA region 11 VITAL project in Lesotho 12 Public Health EnglanD 12 Improving access to treatment in EECA 12 ECAT and ITPC collaboration 13 Swiss collaboration 14 Germany 14 Conference/forum participations 15 Partners 16 Engagement & Support 17 Finances 18 Appendix 22 1. BackgrounD 23 2. Goal 23 3. Tasks 23 4. Activities 24 5. Partners 33 6. Duration 33 President's Foreword Let’s celebrate life and live well. "No matter what your diagnosis, it's important to embrace life and live it to the full." With these words we started our large-scale campaign #NoHIVstigma, the aim of which was to neutralize stigma and discrimination aimed at people living with HIV. Unfortunately, we still have stigma in medical institutions, stigma in the working place, in schools, universities, among friends, self-stigma – EVERYWHERE there is Stigma. We know, if we fight the HIV stigma, we can stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Stigma is often crEated by fEar, stigma is crEated through lack of information or misinformation, stigma is crEated through lack of support. Stigma encourages people to hide, to not show their rEal faces, to be afraid of disclosing their status. Stigma leads to depression and impacts upon mental hEalth.