Women and their families

Aidshilfe Düsseldorf offers special consultation and support services for women with HIV/Aids and their families.

We provide advice in regards to female-specific questions in regards to HIV infections, such as the respective transmission, sexuality and relationships, the wish to have children and pregnancy, family subject matters and financial assistance.Contact and exchanges may assist in coping with an infection. Please contact us, we offer advice and discussion in our advice center/offices - if you do not speak German or English, we can also provide a translation service (free of charge).

We advice with regard to all aspects to life with HIV and include the following:

• General and women specific information about HIV/Aidsh
• Counseling of women with HIV and their relatives/friends
• Support in finding help for children
• Health promotion for affected women
• Selp-help and discussion groups, facilitating of one-to-one groups with women who are also infected
• Breakfast for people with HIV (Tuesday morning)
• Relief fund for financial support (medical purposes)

Aidshilfe Düsseldorf e.V. also represents the interests of women with HIV and Aids on a communal, state and Federal level. XXelle focuses on female issues in North-Rhine Westphalia, as well as jointly developed quality targets in regards to women and aids. The aids support organizations and other organizations in North-Rhine Westphalia are working together and have developed a network for female-related HIV health work for 25 years .

This offer is kindly supported by the city of Düsseldorf, as well as means provided by the state of North-Rhine Westphalia for target-group specific prevention.

More information about "Women with Aids and HIV" can be found here (in German only):

www.xxelle-nrw.de

www.netzwerkfrauenundaids.de

www.frauenundhiv.info