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Chat: Living long with HIV

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Michèle Meyer learnt of her HIV infection in 1994 and expected to die early. Tonight, the happy family mum and self-help activist invites you to a chat. Topic: "Long-term survival!"

The first newspaper report about the disease that would later be called AIDS appeared in the New York Times in 1981 - almost 30 years ago. Some people who found out about their HIV infection in the 1980s are still alive today - thanks to highly effective HIV treatments. Since the mid-90s, they have made it possible to live with the virus for a long time.

How do you look to the future when you have already finished with life? How do you deal with the Long-term side effects of the medication? How do you deal with friends surviving? These are the kinds of questions that will be addressed in tonight's chat on the topic of "Long-term survival!" with activist Michèle Meyer, President of the Swiss self-help organisation LHIVE.

Michèle Meyer with Mic, Mona and Sofia

Michèle herself has known about her infection since 1994. She suffered a miscarriage at the time, shortly afterwards she was diagnosed with Diagnosis. "Back then, I thought I would grow old with a burning desire to have children, but don't ask me how old!" she says, "There were no drugs back then." Today, she lives in a small town near Basel with her HIV-negative husband and two daughters who were also born negative.

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