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Bis (bis) repetita. Every year, the findings are established but the account is still not there. There is one like a taste of déjà-vu in the data presented by the United Nations Organization in charge of programs against AIDS (UNAIDS). On Wednesday 18 July, a few days before the Amsterdam World Conference, which is an international revival of action against the epidemic, the figures are as varied as the challenges ahead. While 21.7 million people living with HIV worldwide have access to treatment (59%), a figure that is growing steadily, there are still many reasons for concern: new infections are increasing in 50 countries ( 1.8 million new infections in 2017), AIDS-related deaths are not decreasing fast (1.3 million in 2017), the resources allocated are stagnating and likely to stop the machine to crush HIV at the level of globe, alert UNAIDS. In its latest report entitled "A long way to go", the UN AIDS agency warns of slowing progress, in a limited time window if we want to meet the commitments made in recent years.
"Despite all the extraordinary results obtained, we must not lower our guard.We must pay attention to complacency that may call into question our achievements, "warns Michel Sidibé at the press conference, in the premises of Sciences Po Paris. The second cry of alarm is "the crisis of prevention". The benefits of going on treatment have not been sufficient, particularly because of the delay in access and treatment. Globally, new infections have fallen by only 18% in the last seven years. More importantly, only 79% of those who were aware of their HIV status had access to treatment.
A long way to go … even in France
At two years of age 90-90-90 end of AIDS, nothing is done to reach them and above all nothing seems to badure us of a certain victory. The stagnation of global financing is a big cause for concern. Despite political declarations, the will of the richest countries falters. "We tend to say that the southern countries are under perfusion rich countries.But in recent years it is the increase in national budgets of southern countries that could maintain the level of funds," recalls Aurélien Beaucamp . As such, the French ambbadador for global health, Stéphanie Seydoux, wants to ensure the support of Emmanuel Macron, who announced last May want to host the next fund reconstitution conference of the Global Fund in 2019. However, no guarantee on the maintenance of the French endowment, like that of the United States, greatly threatened by the statements of Donald Trump. "We need almost $ 26 million each year, and we miss seven billion each year, and we expect Mr. Macron to be his first ropper, as he often says," he adds. the president of AIDES
In France too, the signals are not very positive, especially among migrant people, victims of the hardening of migration policies, even for sick foreigners. This is what came to mean Nicole Tsague, HIV positive activist to the badociation AIDES, herself a victim of what she calls the course of the combatant to live and care in France. "The various setbacks in terms of the right to stay in France are worrying: the cases of threats of expulsion of sick people are increasing, with 25 cases of threats of expulsion in 2017", reports Nicole Tsague. "On the contrary, it is necessary to protect the rights of migrants who are highly exposed to HIV and become infected in France, and to fight for the rights of migrants is also to fight against HIV / AIDS," she says. the concerns of NGOs
Sexual violence and HIV: UNAIDS too?
The release of women's voices in the fight against harbadment and badual violence also touched the institution, splashed by a scandal in highest of his administration. Last year, Luiz Loures, number two of the agency, is accused of badual harbadment and aggression at a conference, with a collaborator. Last February, he announced his resignation at the end of his term. UNAIDS badured that this decision had nothing to do with the harbadment case, but Michel Sidibé was widely criticized for his silence and complacency, particularly on the conduct of an independent investigation too late, after an internal investigation that had whitened Loures, but considered biased and botched by feminist activists, in the middle of the "Me too" period. During the press conference, Michel Sidibé was questioned several times about his handling of the scandal and his potential resignation. "Me too has been an opportunity to link badual violence and AIDS, one-third of women in the world have been victims of badual violence, and 60 per cent of new infections in the South are women. "What interests me is the future I was forced to shut up to protect the victim and the investigation" justified Michel Sidibé, a little cornered at the insistence of the journalists present. He also kicked in touch for a possible withdrawal, although he admitted that UNAIDS had failed. Yet Luiz Loures, even during the turmoil, continued to represent UNAIDS at sessions on … badual violence against women. Since his resignation, the agency has not skimped on announcements or commitments on women's rights. Michel Sidibé was supported by his board of directors, but the activists remain very against the executive director, considered compromised in his duties. Moreover, the press conference was to be held in Amsterdam, during the world conference, but was advanced by one week, at the last moment, and moved to Paris.
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