The Sidaction association received just over 3.9 million euros in contributions to the fight against AIDS during its traditional annual fundraising weekend, an amount close to the amount raised last year.
This stability “underlines the commitment and confidence” of the donors, while “inflation weighs on the economic situation of the French who have to make many sacrifices,” the general director of Sidaction, Florence Thune, reacted in a press release.
The association had already raised 4 million euros last year, slightly less than the record of 4.5 million reached in 2019 and almost repeated in 2021.
650,000 deaths in 2021
The collection, launched this Friday with the support of 35 collaborating media, remains open until April 6 by calling 110 toll-free. As usual, these funds “will be allocated to research and care programs and associative care and assistance programs to people living with HIV, in France and abroad”, specifies Sidaction.
Forty years after the discovery of the virus responsible for AIDS, “new infections are still too numerous and millions of people do not have access to treatment,” recalls Florence Thune.
According to the latest UNAIDS report, 38.4 million people worldwide are living with HIV, of whom 1.5 million were tested in 2021, while another 650,000 died the same year from AIDS-related illnesses. .
Delayed by the health crisis
In France, health authorities estimate that “around 190,000 people” are living with HIV, including 25,000 who “are unaware of their serological status or do not receive treatment despite an established diagnosis.”
After the delay accumulated during the Covid epidemic, screening exceeded its pre-health crisis level in early 2022, with more people screened in the first half of the year than in the same period of 2019, according to Public Health France.
Updating facilitated by the possibility, from January 1, 2022, of taking the test without a prescription and without payment in advance in all medical analysis laboratories.
Source: BFM TV
