Luis Carlos Escobar Pinzon was named executive director of Deutsche Aidshilfe, a 120-member umbrella organization for community-based health organizations, last January. Born in Columbia, Escobar has lived in Germany for the past 14 years, working in public health research. DW-WORLD.DE: Dr. Escobar, the situation surrounding AIDS education and treatment has changed a great deal in the past decade. What is the state of affairs in Germany today? Luis Carlos Escobar de Pinzon: Since anti-retrovirus combination therapies were introduced, people with HIV have better treatment opportunities. They can live for years symptom-free. That may have led to the fact that many people no longer think of HIV and AIDS as deadly diseases. Many people no longer think of HIV and AIDS as deadly, Escobar said AIDS is now often seen as a chronic illness, so people aren’t protecting themselves as well as they used to. That’s been our experience, and we are really sorry to see it. It is a huge new challenge in primary prevention. Currently in Germany, according to estimates by the Robert Koch institute, there are 56,000 people in Germany living with HIV/AIDS. The biggest group is what we call MSM — men who have sex with men…. Read full this story
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