While in France around 190,000 people are living with HIV, Sidaction has raised just over 3.9 million euros in pledges.
- Donors were once again present this year during Sidaction.
- 3,911,394 euros in pledges for the fight against AIDS were collected.
- This sum will enable research to progress and associations to continue their work with people living with HIV.
Despite inflation, the French continue to be generous and to support the fight against AIDS: the Sidaction association received an amount close to that of last year during its traditional annual fundraising weekend.
Sidaction: donations support AIDS research
Thus it is nearly 4 million euros which “will be donated to research and care programs and to associative programs for the care and assistance of people living with HIV, in France and abroad”, precise Sidaction.
HIV is an STI, that is to say an infection that can be transmitted during sexual relations. “A person infected with HIV is said to have AIDS when their immune system begins to weaken more and more and it no longer succeeds in protecting that person against diseases and other infections.“, noted AIDS prevention.
This is when opportunistic diseases appear, diseases that take advantage of the body’s defenselessness to attack it. We often find among these diseases: cancers, pneumonia, tuberculosis, etc.
The AIDS epidemic is still claiming victims
Forty years after the discovery of HIV”new infections are still too many and millions of people do not have access to treatment“, recalled the general manager of Sidaction, Florence Thune in the association’s press release. 38.4 million people worldwide are living with HIV, according to UNAIDS.
In France, health authorities estimate that around 190,000 people are living with HIV, including 25,000 who “are unaware of their HIV status or are not treated despite an established diagnosis“, remember Sidaction press release.
Sidaction’s collection, launched last Friday with the support of 35 media partners, remains open until April 6 by Internet and by telephone by calling 110 free of charge.
