It’s the 1st of November (Allerheiligen) and I ask myself why do you give the dying company In all those years I haven’t visited a single grave. I can’t let go of my clients before they die. I just can’t bear to do it after a certain amount of deaths through Aids. This was what the guy at the local aids assistant center in Freiburg said to yours truly when I paid him a call.
How does a person afflicted with Aids feel and what does he think about himself, his family, the society and what sort of help does he get in Germany These were the questions that I posed to HIV-positive people living in a kind of commune run by the local Aids-Hilfe in Freiburg (Southern Germany). The Aids-Hilfe is a pan-German institute which helps HIV-infected people. » Read more: On Living With Aids in a Black Forest Town