Between 2017 and 2018, the total number of HIV positive findings decreased by 7% between 2017 and 2018 in France, Public Health France announced on October 9 at the sixth Replenishment Conference of the Global Health Fund. fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Lyon.
Encouraging figures. In 2018, 770,000 people died of AIDS worldwide, a third less than in 2010, reported UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, in July. In France, the figures are also rather positive.
According to Public Health France, in France “nearly 6,200 people discovered their HIV seropositivity in 2018, of which 56% were contaminated by heterosexual intercourse, 40% during sex between men, and 2% by injection drug use”. Thus, “the total number of discoveries of seropositivity decreased significantly between 2017 and 2018, by 7%, after several years of stability”. This report was published on October 9, in parallel with the opening of the Sixth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malariawhich is held until October 10 in Lyon in the presence of Emmanuel Macron.
According to Public Health France, “From 2013 to 2018, the number of HIV positive findings decreased significantly among people born in France, both among men who have sex with men (MSM) and among men and women infected through heterosexual contact. The decrease also concerns foreign-born heterosexual men”. However, “over the same period, the number of HIV positive findings remained stable among foreign-born heterosexual women and increased among MSM born abroad. stranger, probably for different reasons”.
Raise at least $14 billion to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
Last month, the Paris City Hall and the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency had already announced that in 2018, “906 Parisians learned of their HIV status, compared to 1,078 in 2015, a drop of 16%”. The latter is undoubtedly due to the success of Prep, a preventive treatment for HIV which, according to a recent French study, would be effective in 100% of cases. TASP (Treatment as prevention), popularized in 2008 and increasingly used, also makes it possible to prevent the transmission of HIV to a sexual partner in an effective way.
But despite these relatively positive figures, all health agencies agree, the fight against AIDS is not progressing fast enough. On the occasion of the meeting in Lyon, organized by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the non-profit institution hopes to raise at least $14 billion and mobilize partners to improve and accelerate research.
Organized every three years, this meeting brings together, according to its organizers, “leaders from public authorities, civil society, the private sector and communities affected by the three most destructive infectious diseases”. Ultimately, its objective is aligned with that of the World Health Organization: to eradicate from the surface of the globe by 2030 these three scourges which, each year, cost the lives of nearly 3 million people.
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