HIV doesn’t stop me from living, prejudices yes
This is the name of the new one campaign of AIDES launched on November 16. “Today, a person living with HIV who has access to treatment has a life expectancy equal to that of an HIV-negative person. She can live, start a family, meet people, work and grow old with the virus. Yet people living with HIV still face stubborn prejudices. And because preconceived ideas often give way to rejection and violence, people living with HIV face intolerable situations on a daily basis: it is serophobia, systemic discrimination against HIV-positive people! »Explains the association. To mark the spirits, AIDES decided to put forward five people living with HIV with uncovered faces. Visuals and videos posted on social networks, but also in the public space. From November 29, five videos allow the general public to discover the stories of witnesses more widely. Three personalities committed to the fight against HIV lend their voices to the campaign. Journalist Pascale Clark, rapper Oxmo Puccino and musician Eddy de Pretto.
Visibility is also the message of the last Remaides (fall 2021) which features ten people living with HIV on the cover, a first in the history of the quarterly which has been published by AIDES since 1990.
Place des combatants in Paris
December 1 is also the day chosen by the mayor of Paris to inaugurate the “place of fighters and AIDS fighters” in tribute to all the people who fought and who continue to fight against HIV for 40 years. The location chosen is part of the median separating rue de Rivoli from rue Saint-Antoine, near the Saint-Paul metro station, not far from the Marais. The project is led by Jean-Luc Romero-Michel, long-time activist in the fight against AIDS and deputy mayor of Paris in charge of human rights, integration and the fight against discrimination.
Militant march
After a break in 2020, due to the health crisis, the traditional activist march organized each year at the initiative of Act Up-Paris will take place. The meeting is fixed at 6 p.m. on the Place de la Bastille, with speeches from 6.30 p.m., and a walk to the Flèche d’Or (Paris 20). The slogan for this year is: “Health precariousness, community response”. More information on the page Facebook of the event.
Round table “Aging well with HIV”
For its part, AIDES Paris is organizing a round table on Saturday December 4 at 5 pm, at Bar 99 Sauvages (99 rue du faubourg Saint-Denis, Paris 10) on the theme “Aging well with HIV is possible! What responses to provide and progress to be made for this to be effective? Word to the people concerned ”with, among others, Jean Luc Romero-Michel and representatives of associations of people concerned. To face the future, what specific needs will have to be taken into account? What solutions exist today for PLWHIV and which remain to be invented to allow a real quality of life in aging? More information on the page Facebook by AIDES Paris.
In addition, AIDES Paris has partnered with the podcast On The Verge, a space for free expression dedicated to male sexualities. Each episode offers a discussion with a man who talks about his intimacy and his sexuality without taboos. For December 1, Anne-Laure Parmantier, who hosts On The Verge, gives the floor to three people affected by HIV and activists of the association from three different generations. The testimonials of Tim, Jérémy and Guéric will be available on the usual platforms, Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
The Patchwork of Names
Another tradition, the Friends of the Patchwork of Names will carry out patchwork deployments at the following locations in Paris and the Paris region: Saint-Paul metro (schedule not communicated by the Town Hall): deployment of a patchwork for the inauguration of the Place des Combattantes et Combattants du Sida; deployment at Credac (Contemporary Art Center – 1 place Pierre Gosnat in Ivry-sur-Seine) of three patchworks at 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. deployment of four patchworks on the Parvis de la Mairie de Saint-Denis at 3.30 p.m. deployment of two patchworks in front of the Bourse du commerce at 6.30 p.m. deployment of two patchworks at the Flèche d’Or at the end of the December 1st March by Act Up-Paris. More information on the page Facebook.
Zerophobia in Seropotes
The association Les Séropotes has decided to relaunch its campaign entitled “Zérophobie”. A 2021 edition with videos of anonymous people living with HIV or better known such as actor Mathieu Ferhati. The campaign can be followed on the various social networks of the Seropotes, in particular on their page YouTube. To celebrate this visibility campaign, the Seropotes are meeting on Sunday December 5, 2021 from 6 p.m. at the Rosa Bonheur tavern located in the Buttes Chaumont park (Paris) for a convivial evening.
Round table in Bordeaux “Representations and discrimination”
Lots of events in the regions too, including a round table organized by AIDES Gironde on the theme “Living with HIV: Representations and discrimination” with Dr Mojgan Hessamfar (infectious disease doctor), Dr Emmanuel Langlois (lecturer in sociology) and Chloé Le Gouëz (advocacy manager at AIDES). This round table will take place on December 1 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Simone Veil amphitheater (1st floor), at Sciences Po Bordeaux (11 Allée Ausone in Pessac).
120 BPM in Niort
Make way for culture with AIDES Deux-Sèvres which is organizing a special session of the film 120 beats per minute, Tuesday November 30 at 8 p.m. at the Moulin du Roc cinema (9 boulevard Main in Niort) followed by a debate led by activists from AIDES.
Users exhibition in Alès
Head south with an exhibition of works produced by users of the Caarud (Reception and support center for risk reduction for drug users) from AIDES in the lobby of Alès hospital until ‘to December 2.
To fight is to live
For its part, the association Vers Paris Sans Sida (VPSS) will launch a video campaign entitled “Fighting is living” consisting of four films that pay tribute to activists in the fight against AIDS as well as to people living with with HIV and the advances that this struggle has made for the whole of society. Videos to find on the page Facebook de VPSS.
Special evenings on Arte and M6
For those who live far from big cities or who want to stay warm under a plaid, Arte is planning a special evening on December 1 with the broadcast of an unpublished portrait of Hervé Guibert at 11:05 p.m. French writer and journalist, he wrote several short stories and novels, some of which today belong to the literary movement of autofiction. This unpublished portrait will be preceded by the screening of the film To please, love and run quickly by Christophe Honoré, which traces the ultimate love story of a writer condemned by AIDS with a student. A magnificent melody, worn by Pierre Deladonchamps and Vincent Lacoste. Finally, this day will end with the documentary 40 years of AIDS. Silence = death, signed by Jobst Knigg, already available for streaming on the site of Arte. For its part, the M6 channel will offer a special Freddie Mercury evening with the broadcast of the film Bohemian Rhapsody, a British-American biopic co-produced and directed by Bryan Singer, followed by a documentary on the legendary artist who died of AIDS in 1991.
30 years for Actions Traitements
A few days before December 1, i.e. November 27, 2021 to be precise, Actions Traitements will officially be 30 years old. The association was created in November 1991 by a group of people living with HIV, in the form of a self-help group. It was then a question of supporting each other and sharing experiences, and above all of disseminating updated information on therapeutic research in a context where few treatments existed. In a press release, the association recalls that “the health crisis linked to Covid-19 has hit all those involved in the fight against HIV / AIDS and the people concerned, whether living with HIV or exposed to the risk of contracting it. The progress made since the identification of the first cases forty years ago is now weakened and there are still many battles to be waged before being able to put an end to the HIV epidemic ”. For its 30th anniversary, the association intends to look back on its history and pay tribute to the people who have been part of it. It will publish a series of three articles to look back on each of the three decades of its history, alongside the history of the fight against HIV. To be continued on in line. A chronology of the thirty years of Actions Traitements is already available.
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