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It is World AIDS Day. Due to Covid, the number of HIV tests fell by 14% in France in 2020. Result : a possible delay in diagnosis and access to treatment, which worries associations.
One in three young people today consider themselves ill-informed about AIDS. So, associations are launching an operation for these students from Nice. In front of their university, screenings, from a single drop of blood. It can take three or four years for a person infected with HIV to develop the disease. If she does not know she is HIV positive, she can spread the virus HIV around her.
However, since the start of the Covid-19, there is a 22% drop in screenings. “We know that the majority of transmissions are from people who do not know they are infected, hence the importance of catching up today with screenings that were not carried out in 2019 and 2020”, explains Sandrine Fournier, director of the Funding, research and associations division at Sidaction. Screening has become a public health issue. The AIDS virus is 170,000 people infected in France, including 6,200 new cases each year.