Grandstand. The coming five-year term will be decisive in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic and achieving the objective set by the outgoing government: 2030 without AIDS. We, activists, researchers, doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers and clinicians in the fight against HIV/AIDS, urge the Head of State to propose a policy commensurate with the challenge he has set himself. and apply the ten essential political measures to achieve this goal. Because a goal means nothing if you don’t give yourself the means to achieve it.
Let us repeat it as loudly as necessary: the HIV/AIDS epidemic is not over. In France, it is estimated, according to the latest available figures, that one hundred and seventy-two thousand people are living with HIV. Among them, twenty-four thousand ignore it. A figure that will probably increase after more than two years of health crisis which led to a 14% drop in the use of screening and which represented a brake on the implementation of PrEP [prophylaxie pré-exposition (de l’anglais pre-exposure prophylaxis), pilule préventive « antisida »]preventive treatment that protects against HIV.
More than six thousand two hundred new HIV infections were discovered in France in 2019 according to Santé Publique France most often affecting people discriminated against by the social conditions in which they live or stigmatized by the way society looks at them: people in exile, trans people, men who have sex with men, users of psychoactive products , sex workers, or prisoners.
Ambition has so far been insufficient. Over the past five years, it has even too often gone against the objective that we share. The executive has implemented tougher conditions for the arrival and reception of migrants. The public hospital has limited its access to the poorest, in addition to failing to preserve its actors. Civil society has been excluded from health decision-making, especially during the Covid-19 crisis.
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We have eight short years until 2030 to rectify the situation, protect populations against this virus and stop an epidemic which continues, each year, to cost thousands of lives around the world. Mr Macron, you could become the president of the end of AIDS. To do this, we must act now.
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