2023-11-07 12:56:21
The States General of people living with HIV will bring together nearly 200 HIV-positive people from May 25 to 27, 2024, in Paris. This event will allow a sharing of experiences between HIV-positive participants and will lead to the formulation of demands and recommendations. The first will be addressed to public decision-makers and the second to professionals involved in prevention and health promotion and in the health and life course of people living with HIV, in order to improve their support and care.
The initiators of this highlight thus rely on a principle which is at the center of the community approach to health: “Nothing for us, without us!” »considering that people living with HIV are the most able to identify their needs, to propose and co-construct solutions to respond to them, to contribute to their implementation as well as to evaluate them.
A first phase of gathering the needs of people living with HIV was launched at the beginning of the fall and will continue until January 15, 2024, via a website and collective discussion times organized by associations fighting once morest HIV. HIV partners. This step will make it possible to identify priority themes to be integrated into the General Assembly program for people living with HIV.
The three days on which the States General will be held, in May 2024, are imagined as a space for collective development alternating plenary sessions, round tables and workshops in order to allow the free expression of people living with HIV, to develop recommendations and to combine different expertise (people concerned, community associations, health professionals and institutional actors, among others). Concrete proposals will be formulated to be presented to the central health administration, public agencies and representatives of health professionals or other sectors concerned with HIV.
Discrimination, inequalities, violence: the invisible daily life of people living with HIV
Around 200,000 people live with HIV today in France. These are all individuals exposed to inequalities, discrimination and serophobic violence which are not weakening.
And as proof, these edifying figures bear witness to it: 63% of French people consider that HIV status constitutes an important criterion for entering into a romantic relationship or not. 25% think that an HIV-positive person can represent a danger when working in a health profession. One in three dentists refuse to treat HIV-positive patients. Despite therapeutic advances which today allow an HIV-positive person under treatment to no longer transmit the virus, preconceived ideas and stigma persist and impact the daily lives of people living with HIV.
The issues that quality of life and aging represent today for HIV-positive people must have a place in public policies in the fight once morest HIV/AIDS: public authorities have a duty to take charge of them by taking action. relying on the words of the first people concerned.
Find all the information on the General Status of people living with HIV on the dedicated website.
[1]Actions Treatments, Act Up-Paris, AIDES, ALS, Arcat, the Families Committee, Ikembéré, Les Petits Bonheurs, Réseau Santé Marseille Sud, Sidaction, SFLS and SPILF.
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