AIDS: why is the disease no longer on the decline in France?
In 2024, France will have 3,650 people infected with HIV. A figure that had not been reached since the years before Covid-19. While prevention campaigns have never been so present in France, the number of contaminations no longer seems to be decreasing. At the same time, 630,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses last year worldwide. A figure that has been decreasing since 2010, but insufficient to “end AIDS by 2030”, as the UN hoped for last year. According to experts, too few people feel concerned about the disease and screen themselves sufficiently. Florence Thunegeneral director of Sidaction, finances research programs and participates in the general awareness-raising effort. HIV positive for 27 years, she speaks in the media to warn both of the decline in prevention and screening and of the stigmatization to which people carrying HIV are subject.
American presidential election: the closest election in history?
In two weeks, American citizens will be called to the polls to choose their next president. In an extremely close and undecided election, this campaign, marked by an assassination attempt against Donald Trump, a festival of disinformation and hurricanes hitting the country, will have been more violent than ever. While Donald Trump has discredited Kamala Harris’ alleged past as a McDonald’s employee, the Democratic candidate attacks the former US president on his age and accuses him of senility and exhaustion. The fate of the ballot will depend, as usual, on the vote of the seven swing states, whose vote is never known in advance. An important actor is trying to play a role in the electoral campaign: Elon Musk. The founder of Tesla is organizing a “pro-Trump” lottery and is winning a million dollars per day to a voter drawn at random who will sign a petition in favor of freedom of expression and the carrying of weapons. A practice which plays with the boundaries of legality according to lawyers.
Finally Xavier Mauduit presents the fourteen new “saints” proclaimed by Pope Francis and Marie Bonnisseau discusses the ban on goodbye hugs lasting more than three minutes in a New Zealand airport.
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