The Luxembourg Red Cross’ new online training promotes safer sex, safer use and a living environment free of prejudice and discrimination. Photo: Shutterstock

The Luxembourg Red Cross’ new online training promotes safer sex, safer use and a living environment free of prejudice and discrimination. Photo: Shutterstock

The HIV Berodung, the advisory service of the Luxembourg Red Cross, is launching its online training course "Basics of HIV, STI and Hepatitis". The platform is entirely free and open to everyone.

The Luxembourg Red Cross is starting the new online training in order to promote safer sex, safer use and a living environment free of prejudice and discrimination. The training is aimed at professionals, students or volunteers who wish to deepen their knowledge in the field of HIV, STIs and hepatitis and/or who wish to intervene in the prevention of these infections. 

"We have an ever-increasing demand for training on HIV and STIs. With the lessons learned from the covid epidemic concerning the use of new information technologies for meetings or training, we needed to adapt and to be able to allow those who wish to do so to be trained directly online", stresses Laurence Mortier, deputy director of the HIV Berodung service.


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The modules offer a wide range of information on HIV and AIDS: history, epidemiology, transmission routes, treatment and prevention tools, seropositivity, as well as viral hepatitis and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

The training is open to everyone aged 16 and over, although prevention workers are the priority target. Through the several games and quizzes, it is possible to test one's knowledge or to learn about a more concrete subject, without having to do the whole course.