“It is essential to continue this impulse of solidarity.”

The Sidaction Association received 3.9 million euros in donation promises for the fight against AIDS during the 31st edition of its annual collection weekend, a slightly increased amount compared to last year.

“It is essential to continue with this impulse of solidarity because the mobilization must be registered in the duration. The challenges that we will have to assume are immense and financial needs, especially for research, will be considerable in the coming months and years,” he said this Sunday, March 23, in the general director of Aidaciones de Florence Thune.

The association raised exactly 3,909 million euros in promises, an amount almost similar to 2024 (3.87 million euros).

“Thanks to the investigation, we can live with HIV, help research, we can live without,” said the association, co -founded in 1994 by Pierre Bergé and Line Renaud.

The “treatments of the future are given” priority “to achieve a remission, if not to a healing,” he said to the president of Sidaction, CO-HIP-Histor of the virus and the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Françoise Barré-Sininosi on Saturday in France Inter.

“Treat patients” and “prevent infection”

The sums collected will also go to associations that accompany “the most precarious people, which unfortunately are the most vulnerable for HIV infection,” he added.

Sidaction, who finances associative programs to help people who live with HIV, France and internationally as in Africa, is concerned about the consequences of the USAID USAID agency, for which a large part of global humanitarian aid transits.

“This money,” he used to “treat patients, to prevent infection,” Françoise Barré-Sininosi said on Saturday, describing the decision of the US president of “catastrophe in the coming years.”

Several hundred HIV specialists had urged the United States last week to restore their contributions. The cuts could “cause the death of around six million people in the next four years,” they said.

In France, some 200,000 people live with HIV and almost 5,500 new seropositivities were discovered in 2023.

Despite the progress of the last 20 years, almost 40 million people still live with HIV worldwide, including approximately a quarter without treatment, and more than 600,000 die each year due to AIDS.