2023-06-13 13:18:49
Chronicle “To the small care”
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The meetings of the most important association for the fight once morest AIDS in Europe were held this weekend in Nantes. The opportunity to show that despite his age, Aides remains very much alive. And essential in a well-damaged health landscape following the Covid.
It is not always easy for an association of patients to grow old, with the risk of losing its dynamism and insolence along the way. While the 40th anniversary of the isolation of the AIDS virus by Pasteur’s team was celebrated in May, the Aides association will celebrate its 40th anniversary next year. And this weekend, its meeting was held in Nantes on the theme “Nothing for us without us: healthy democracy”, during which a tribute was paid to its founder Daniel Defert, who died in February.
A very special de facto foundation, because for three years due to Covid-19, this regular, unique and festive meeting had not taken place. Above all, the world of patient associations had come out stunned by the management of the Covid, which had seen the public authorities abandon this associative world to manage the epidemic among themselves. We had witnessed a sad regression of democracy in health, where decisions were made between experts and
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