HIV-mobil is Austria's sole service organization for home health nursing dedicated to people with HIV and

AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual m ...

. The organization was founded in 1999 and is based in Vienna. __TOC__

History and goals

The association was founded in with the support of Vienna's AIDS network (AIDS-Stammtisch) and major encouragement by Burgl Helbich-Poschacher from the ''Austrian AIDS Service'' of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and from

Christian Michelides Christian Michelides (born July 19, 1957) is an Austrian psychotherapist. He is the director of Lighthouse Wien. Life and career Michelides was born in Graz. In 1973, he started to work as an opera critic of a provincial newspaper called ''Südost ...

, then director of the self-help organization '' Menschen und Aids (Club Plus)'', thereafter founder and director of ''

Lighthouse Wien Lighthouse Wien is a Vienna, Austria-based non-profit homeless shelter and housing project for homeless persons with substance dependency, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and/or psychiatric disorders. The project is not subsidiary, subsidized. It was founded ...

''. The founders of HIV-mobil were health care specialist Beate Dannoritzer, nurse ''Günter Geyer'' and social worker ''Thomas Fröhlich''. Dannoritzer has chaired the association since its foundation. Its medical director of many years standing is HIV specialist '' Wolfgang Steflitsch''; the care department is headed by ''Eva Stifter''. From 1999 to 2004 the organization was funded solely by Austria's most prestigious charity event, the

Life Ball The Life Ball in Vienna is the biggest Charitable organization, charity event in Europe supporting people with HIV or AIDS. The event is organized by the nonprofit organization AIDS LIFE, which was founded in 1992 by Gery Keszler and Torgom Petros ...

. Since 2005, ''Life Ball'' and ''City of Vienna'' share the financing of HIV-mobil. In its ''Guiding Principles'' the organization calls its primary goal to be an ''integral home care and medical services organization'', borne by respect toward all people taken care of — ″regardless of age, religion, descent, social position or sexual orientation without any moral judgement.″ HIV-mobil has been networking successfully on a national and international basis, is cooperating with all Viennese AIDS clinics, with AIDS help organizations in Austria, such as

, as well as with several assisted living organizations in Vienna. Furthermore, the organization has developed guidelines for the treatment of people with HIV and

in home care and has been supporting actively the requests of national health organizations at the XVIII International AIDS Conference that took place in Vienna in 2010.

Accolades

* 2010 Health Award of the City of Vienna

References

External links

Website HIV-mobil

Austria Presse Agency
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