If the number of new infections is stable, AIDS is omnipresent among homosexuals. The incidence of infection is 200 times higher than in heterosexuals
“Whatever progress may be, nothing can ever be taken for granted. We must continue the fight until the disease is eradicated,” declared the President of the Republic during a visit to a hospital in the Paris region. François Hollande thus set the tone for World AIDS Day on December 1. Because on the front of the epidemic in France, the results are mixed.
Admittedly, the number of new contaminations is stable. According to the latest Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, 150,000 people are infected but 10% to 20% of them ignore it. During the day, Marisol Touraine announced that rapid screening tests would be generalized to reach out to populations who have not pushed the door of a screening center.
Second danger pointed out by Professor Jean-Francois Delfraissy, president of the National Agency for AIDS Research, “HIV / AIDS tends to become commonplace in the general population and appears to be a risk increasingly removed from concerns, in particular. among 18-30 year olds. Among young people, condom use is less systematic after the first sexual intercourse. To convince them that it is the only method of preventing AIDS, the government will develop information campaigns in next week.
Most worrying, however, is the population of men who have sex with men (MSM). The incidence of infection is 200 times higher than in heterosexuals. Parisian gay places of conviviality are conducive to risky sexual behavior. They increased in 2011 with 38% of MSM declaring at least one risk-taking in the last 12 months with occasional male partners of unknown or different HIV status against 33% in 2004, according to the first results of the Gays Press Survey. and Lesbians (EPGL).
Another population at high risk, people “born abroad” (in 75% of cases in sub-Saharan Africa) infected through heterosexuality. These two groups each represent 40% of HIV positive findings in 2011. The public authorities are looking for new prevention tools.
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