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The AIDS Prevention Platform and its partners launch the "Zero Discrimination" challenge in the run-up to the World AIDS Day, organized on December 1st, the badociation announced on Thursday. Several events will also take place throughout Belgium to show solidarity with people living with HIV.
Collect as many photos of hands forming a zero "because everyone has the right to a life without discrimination" is the goal of this new campaign. Citizens are thus invited to post their photos on social networks or in the gallery of the site www.zero-discrimination.be. In Belgium, 13% of people infected with HIV have already had a denial of care because of their HIV status and more than 15% have been denied or complicated access to goods and services such as insurance or loans. bank, tip the platform. Illegal, this discrimination is also unjustified since a person infected with HIV, with a viral load (amount of virus in the blood) undetectable no longer transmits the virus. However, "thanks to their treatment and good medical follow-up, 97% of those screened today have an undetectable viral load," the badociation says.
In addition to the "Zero Discrimination" challenge, a red ribbon will illuminate the Brussels-Central station, the Charleroi Shopping Rive Gauche, the Antwerp City Hall, the Ghent Vooruit and will also sparkle on 1 December from 5 pm to 11 pm in front of the Liège-Guillemins railway station. This symbol of the fight against HIV will be distributed especially in these five places. In the capital, the pedestrian Boulevard Anspach will welcome at 18h the DJ Set of Brussels Luca Pecoraro, aka Todiefor. Free, immediate and anonymous testing, bowling against HIV and STIs, a photo booth and condom distribution are also on the agenda.
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