1er december, world aids day
Fight against AIDS: a day to say “zero”!
December 01, 2011 – World AIDS Day brings people together around the world in the face of the AIDS pandemic and creates a movement of solidarity, in particular through public and private partners responsible for informing the general public about the situation current. This day of action is therefore an opportunity to promote the prevention, treatment and care of HIV / AIDS, in high prevalence countries but also everywhere else.
From this year, and until 2015, UNAIDS – Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS – has set itself a threefold objective:
Zero new HIV infections – Zero discrimination – Zero AIDS deaths
The last proposal of this triptych “Zero deaths due to AIDS” is a call to the public authorities to act immediately and keep their commitments, but also a call to African governments so that they at least achieve the agreed objectives in this area. national spending on health and HIV. For your information, 35 euros are needed to provide an AIDS patient in Africa with triple therapy and medical support for a month.
Remember that 33.2 million people are living with HIV in the world, there are 150,000 in France. 10% of new infections concern 15-24 year olds in France, or 2 cases per day. In Canada, 2,432 HIV cases were reported in 2007.
Last year, 2 million people died from AIDS around the world.
Prevention must remain at the heart of measures to combat AIDS. We hear too often today that there is a cure for HIV. However, current combined therapies, while they can significantly slow the progression of the infection, which tends to reduce the number of deaths due to AIDS, they nevertheless fail to cure the infection and restore the disease. health.
Let’s not lower our guns, AIDS continues to kill. We must continue to think about protecting ourselves.
Learn more about AIDS / HIV
Audrey Dulieux – PasseportSanté.net
Sources:
http://www.who.int/fr/
http://www.un.org/fr
