2023-12-01 06:27:00
Like every year, December 1 marks the mobilization throughout the world of actors fighting once morest the spread of HIV, responsible for 5,000 annual contaminations in France. In Paca, the number of HIV discoveries, in slight decrease since 2017, increased in 2021, notes the ARS. Figures which show that awareness-raising actions remain essential at a time “when we realize that no one knows much regarding HIV, especially young people”, deplores Dr Michel Bourrelly, president of Vers Marseille without AIDS & without hepatitis.
Among the latest tools developed to reduce the epidemic, pre-exposure prophylactic treatment (PrEP), intended for HIV-negative people highly exposed to the virus, is still too little known despite its confirmed effectiveness. “Nearly two thirds of the population are unaware of the existence of this treatment, which has nevertheless enabled a significant reduction in contamination in countries where the epidemic was very strong,” supports Dr. Bourrelly.
Doctors respond to doctors
In order to support its prescription, extended since June 1, 2021 to community medicine, a telephone reception and information structure intended for health professionals is launched for the first time this December 1, at the initiative of the Sainte-Marguerite hospital (9th). Called PrEPline, this experimental project to support the prescription of PrEP is provided by volunteer doctors whose mission will be to answer the questions of prescribers in the Paca region. “City doctors will be able to contact their “responding” colleagues on their cell phones 5 days a week, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., to ask their questions. This will provide information and reassurance regarding this prescription,” explains Michel Bourrelly.
By strengthening the arsenal of combined prevention, which combines condoms, repeated screening, rapid diagnosis following contamination and treatment of HIV-positive people, PrEP is part of “the prevention tools which should make it possible to reduce AIDS in Marseille by 2030,” the practitioner wants to believe.
Information and screening at Sainte-Marguerite hospital from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., prevention villages at Cours Julien and at the Conception hospital from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Performance of “Still Happy” at 7 p.m. at Coco Velten (1st).
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