ADM – AIDS-Dienst Malteser

Help for HIV/AIDS carriers and their relatives.

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General HIV/AIDS information

HIV does not distinguish between race or religion, rich or poor, young or old.

You can’t feel HIV.

You can’t taste HIV.

You can’t see HIV.

Yet you might hear the world’s mute cry.

The virus is alive.

AIDS is faceless, but every victim has got one.

Care moves – understanding opens – love heals.

HIV – Human Immune Deficiency Virus

All kinds of body fluids of HIV- infected people are to varying degrees affected by the Hi-Virus. Only the direct exchange of these fluids will cause an infection.

Routes of transmission

  • through blood and blood-products
  • through mother to child transmission (breast milk and natural childbirth)
  • through vaginal secretions and sperm
  • through cerebrospinal fluid
  • through use of contaminated hypodermic needles

AIDS – Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

These four letters signify the chronic disease’s outbreak after an incubation-period from three to fifteen years. AIDS cannot be cured. Interrupting the chain of infection is the only effective protection (condom, femidom, mother to child, no needle sharing).

AIDS is incurable.

AIDS-Dienst Malteser

AIDS-Dienst Malteser (ADM) is a care and relief corps of the Greater Priory of Austria within the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, run by trained volunteers and private sponsors. Active charity in the spirit of the order, for the benefit of the sick and for world peace is the foundation of all of ADM’s activities.

In the face of the impact an HIV infection has on a person’s life, maintaining the victim’s independence is the primary aim.

This is established through the relief-corps‘ various activities, which are:

  • Contact by telephone
  • Visits and shopping
  • Help with authorities
  • Financial aid in time of need
  • Monthly Jour fixe
  • Day trips and pilgrimages

If guilty or innocent, it doesn’t matter, but establishing a personal relationship with the victims, to find a way out of the need and social isolation is the only thing that counts.