This new health insurance would select its customers to make a difference in terms of price and quality. That way you wouldn’t pay a high premium for caring for others. Also broadcast your sexual orientation, gender, and orientation. Mark Vermeulen, director of AIDSfonds, responds to the advertising of this fake health insurance: “The intention was to scare people. In the Netherlands we do not exclude anyone, everyone is entitled to basic health insurance regardless of who you are. This is a great resource that we are also very happy with,” says Mark.
Exclusion from treatment
Mark explains that the problem lies mainly in the rest of the world: “What we see is that many people around the world are excluded from treatment. So many people with HIV are also excluded because of who they are, where they live and who they love. With this action, we kick off our World AIDS Day campaign and draw attention to the fact that millions of people living with HIV are excluded from treatment. Things are well organized in the Netherlands, but we still have a lot to do around the world.”
At present there is still an AIDS epidemic in the world. “We have been working with AIDS for forty years. I live with HIV myself, which means I take one pill a day and can lead a healthy life just like someone who isn’t infected,” explains Mark. According to him, the problem really lies with the countries themselves: “It’s not the price of the drugs, it’s not the affordability of them, but really the fact that people are not allowed to be who they want to be and therefore contract HIV. “
Listen to the full conversation below as Mark talks about how the rest of the world is coping with HIV.
