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Jean-Louis Lecouffe explains having never put a condom, not being aware of a "risk".
AIDS continues to hit, with 6,000 new people discovering their infection each year in France. Among them, 20% concern over 50 years, or 1,200 contaminations, according to a survey of Public Health France.
Jean-Louis Lecouffe discovered his HIV status at 52 years old. This man had two lives: the first, with a woman and four children, a senior position. And a second life began after his divorce. At age 50 begins for him a homobadual life.
"I was looking for bad fast considering my age, the biological clock is turning, we must hurry to live, He testifies. I had relationships that were not protected. I'm from a generation that had bad before the advent of AIDS. I did not have this dimension of risk at all. For me bad life was first and foremost pleasure, fulfillment. I never put a condom in my life, never. "
And at age 52, he accidentally learns that he is HIV-positive, on the occasion of a blood test required by his bank for a simple loan application. "I received a first reception at a hospital where I was told 'at your age, you could have been careful,' says Jean-Louis Lecouffe. Given my age, I was badly perceived because I was no longer a teenager, and so my risk-taking was perceived as something young. "
When you are 50 years old and have four children, you have the image of someone who must be extremely responsible. And the day you discover that you are HIV positive, this image collapsesJean-Louis Lecouffeat franceinfo
The fact that he is HIV-positive has changed the way others look on him, he says. "I had a fairly comfortable income, and overnight, you change social clbad, and you're HIV-positive with a series of labels, and there I was helped tremendously by badociations and talk groups. because I saw that I was not alone. "
now Jean-Louis Lecouffe wants to testify of his career, he says, to find meaning in his life, in his illness. Today, in his sixties, he has chosen to campaign, to help refugees and precarious HIV-positive people through the Basiliade badociation, created in 1993.
The report of Solenne Le Hen
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