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Sidaction: “As soon as we relax our guard, the virus comes back,” warns the organization’s general director, Florence Thune
From Friday March 22 to Sunday March 24, Sidaction is organizing its 30th donation drive. Review of three decades of action, in the 13 Heures with the general director of the organization, Florence Thune.
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From Friday March 22 to Sunday March 24, Sidaction is organizing its 30th donation drive. Review of three decades of action, in the 13 Heures with the general director of the organization, Florence Thune.
The HIV virus “don’t go back far enough”indicates Florence Thune, the general director of Sidaction, who if she reports “progress since 2010”explain that “in recent years, we tend to see an epidemic that is stagnating”. While UNAIDS planned to drop below 500,000 infections worldwide in 2020, “we are still at 1.3 million new infections”she points out.
Advances in science
In France, around 5,000 people discover their HIV status each year, “a figure that is struggling to fall”she continues, while in Canada, “the epidemic resumes”. “As soon as we relax our guard, the virus comes back”, adds Florence Thune. Science, on the other hand, is making progress, particularly on access to treatment thanks to which “we stay healthy, and what’s more, we don’t transmit HIV”, recalls the general director of Sidaction. Science has also progressed on means of prevention: in addition to the condom, PrEP, a preventive treatment to be taken before sexual intercourse, allows you to avoid being contaminated by HIV.
