The Love wand against AIDS returns

Support for the fight against AIDS also involves gestures as innocuous as buying bread. Like last year, the operation Love wand proposes from October 5 to 15 to make a solidarity gesture for the benefit of the association AIDES contre le AIDS. Nearly 900 artisan bakeries in France are participating in this solidarity initiative which consists of buying a baguette shaped into the shape of a ribbon. Concretely, for each ribbon-shaped rod purchased € 2, € 1 is donated to AIDES for its HIV prevention and screening actions in the field.

To find your Love Baguette, all participating points of sale are listed in a interactive map on the operation site.

A donation box will also be made available in participating bakeries.

33,000 rapid HIV tests

Each year the HIV virus infects more than 6,000 in France and 25,000 people carry the virus without knowing it, according to the AIDES collective. Screening constitutes with antiretroviral treatments the most effective lever to curb this epidemic. “A person screened and put on treatment, it is a healthy person who no longer transmits the virus. The equation is simple: more screenings = less contamination! “Recalls the collective in a press release.

This year, chefs Yves Camdeborde and Norbert Tarayre are the sponsors of the 2018 edition. rapid HIV tests everywhere in France. Around 33,000 tests were carried out in 2017.

“Buying the Love Baguette allows us to acquire more screening kits and finance new actions. A rapid screening kit costs the association € 7.20. If, for example, we succeed in collecting 100,000 € during the Love Baguette 2018 operation, we will then be able to finance nearly 14,000 screening kits “, specifies the Lovebaguette site.

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