“We are moving towards being able to contain the epidemic, but 2030 is getting closer”, warns Florence Thune, general manager of Sidaction, guest of Talk franceinfo on Twitch. “If we don’t put the means, we will fall behind.”
“We planned, in 2020, to drop below 500,000 new infections, these were the objectives given by UNAIDS, in 2020 we were more at 1.5 million new infectionsestimates Florence Thune, general manager of Sidaction, guest of Talk franceinfo on Twitch, Tuesday February 21. So indeed, the idea of a contained epidemic, we see that we are not at all in the objectives, and that was before the Covid period. Already, before the Covid period, we were on not very good indicators and which showed that there were also between 600,000 and 700,000 deaths from AIDS per year.
“We have seen today that epidemics are important to take on a global and global level, to say to ourselves that there are 650,000 people who die of AIDS today per year, we must above all not see it as something is happening elsewhere, we are all concerned anyway, there is sometimes resistance that develops in the face of treatmentshe continues.
Today, nearly 5,000 people discover their HIV status each year in France, “figures that are struggling to drop”regrets Florence Thune. “We have tools that would allow us to dream of zero new infections, assuming it is achievable. We are moving towards being able to contain it, but 2030 is getting closer. delay.”
The importance of screening
“The best way not to have AIDS is to get tested precisely because unfortunately, people who do not get tested, they will end up developing AIDS after 8, 10 years of infection, and that’s too bad to come to this”says Franck Barbier, course and program manager at AIDES.
According to him, “Today, if we get tested regularly, and soon after a risk, we will never get AIDS. In any case, I’m talking about developed countries where there is access to care. But in France, there is no there’s no reason to have it. It’s almost counter-intuitive.”