around the world events are being held to mark world aids day china has launched a national red ribbon alliance to better connect medical facilities helping people living with the disease hospital in brazil released thousands of red balloons to draw attention to the ongoing epidemic in south africa an organization that supports mothers and children living with hiv being held special events including a performance by this way to choir. and to talk about the situation here in germany i'm joined by hog addictive. a charity that helps raise awareness about aids what is the situation in germany as far as each of you people goes well we have declining numbers of infections 2 in germany that's really good news that's because of the effectiveness of the medication the therapy under effective under effective therapy activities not transmittable anymore and that's really good news because it also helps to remove fears people are not afraid anymore if they know transmission is impossible and that is the case today but there's still stick all there is to discrimination against like in people judging other

around the world events are being held to mock world aids day china has launched a national red ribbon alliance to better connect facilities medical facilities helping people living with the disease a hospital in brazil released thousands of red balloons to draw attention to the ongoing epidemic and in south africa an organization that supports mothers and children living with hiv aids held special events including a performance by this that we took last a while. that. the barrel. were for more we're joined from london by anton pas knack he's a doctor a researcher and president of the international aid society and tom thanks for joining me nearly 70 percent of people infected with hiv a worldwide live in sub-saharan africa what's behind the high infection right there . soon. this is. the reason it's the you see the sort of afraid i'm going to have to cut you off off they were having some technical issues there with that line and were unable to hear our guest anton pozen act president of the international aid society but thank you. now let's turn to some of the other stories making news around t

around the world events are being held to mark world aids day china has launched a national red ribbon alliance to better connect medical facilities helping people living with a disease a hospital in brazil released thousands of red balloons to draw attention to the ongoing epidemic and in south africa an organization that supports mothers and children living with hiv held special events including a performance by this away to a gospel choir and to talk about the situation here in germany joined by holger victor of georgia but which helps people living with aids i the aids welcome holger tell me what are the biggest issues facing people today with aids in germany it's still discrimination in stigma you know you can live with h.l.v. like any other people today therapy is very effective if you couldn't have a normal sex life family life working life everything much you still. can experience discrimination against you like in the working place for example people think you can work like other people people say you are guilty person you didn't you know how to protect yourself like that but i thought