VIH'Gilance

26/05/2026

40 ans... Nous aurions pu nous dire que ce message n'était plus d'actualité mais si toujours malheureusement.

25/05/2026

🇺🇸 The Blood Sisters was a movement of le***an activists who organized and sponsored specialized blood drives and medical care for gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

Founded in San Diego, California, in 1983, the group filled critical medical shortages and battle the social abandonment confronting gay men.

During the early 1980s, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implemented a strict ban on blood donations from men who have s*x with men. At the same time, many AIDS patients developed severe anemia and desperately needed blood transfusions. To bypass this barrier, activists Wendy Sue Beagle and Barbara Vic established a dedicated account with a private San Diego blood bank. This system allowed individual donors to legally designate where their blood went—specifically earmarking it for regional AIDS patients.

The Blood Sisters held their first drive on 16 July 1983. While organizers hoped for 50 volunteers, nearly 200 women lined up around the block to donate.

The group hosted 12 massive drives in San Diego up until 1992. They inspired similar grassroots networks in major cities like San Francisco, Boston, and Los Angeles.

Beyond blood, these women served as nurses, hospice volunteers, and bedside advocates. They provided vital physical and emotional touch when institutional medical staff and families often refused to enter patients' rooms out of fear.

23/05/2026

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Dans votre magazine cette semaine : le constat alarmant de SOS homophobie. Dans son dernier rapport, l'association alerte sur la hausse des violences faites aux personnes LGBT+. Plus de 1 770 cas d'agressions…

22/05/2026

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🇺🇸 “No one should die in vain. On the drive to the AIDS Walk, I told my girls a story about the night Uncle Victor died. My dad and I were with him. I didn't mind putting on gloves to wipe his mouth after being sick or dry his tears as the nurses didn't want to for fear of this unknown disease at the time.

Then we met a man at the walk that had been living with AIDS now for 20 plus years. He told us when first diagnosed his sister didn't kiss him for 7 years.

If only Victor had lived a few years longer, we would have known more, we would have had the drugs we have now to help him live longer. But I am proud to keep the awareness going because there is still so much to learn, and maybe one day a cure!

There is still a community that needs us! I am privileged to be able to keep his memory alive for our family and share all the good that Victor was, all the love he held in his heart. He would be overjoyed that we honor him this way. No one should die in vain." 📖 by Leeza Strassburg Edholm

22/05/2026

Très mauvaise nouvelle 😡

21/05/2026

21/05/2026

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🇺🇸 “My father, Charles, was 36 when he died in 1995. He grew up in Ohio and moved to Colorado in 1980. He loved Colorado and and passed shared that love with me. He loved the outdoors, he loved hiking, camping and fishing. He loved baseball as well.

He contracted HIV from a blood transfusion he needed during a surgery. He had Von Willebrand disease, and never talked about his illness. I was 14 when he passed and we were not close while he was living. The years leading up to his death I remember with incredible sadness. He told my brother and I he had HIV in 1991, then it wasn't discussed further. Medications, in and out of the hospital, intensive care, eventually in home hospice.

I remember the last time I saw him, slouched on the living room couch, hospice nurse and a few family members around. I hugged him, he had become so thin he felt like a skeleton in my arms. He was smiling, drugged with pain medication, dementia had taken over. He said, "I love you.” I remember being shocked, he didn't say that often. He died a couple weeks later.

I know now, after years and years of wrangling my grief, that our connection was never meant to be in the physical world, but in the spiritual one. I see him. I see the good and bad. I see him wholly. I see him as the human being he was and the human he tried to be.” 📖 by Candice

20/05/2026

20/05/2026

🎙️ MÉMOIRES ET COMBATS : RENCONTRE AVEC CHRISTOPHE MARTET

Aujourd’hui, nous plongeons dans l'histoire de la lutte contre le VIH avec Christophe Martet​, président de l'association Vers Paris sans sida (VPSS)​.

Alors que le contexte actuel rappelle parfois les heures sombres​, l’énergie des années 90 est-elle encore intacte ? ⏳ Comment transmettre la mémoire de l'hécatombe à une jeunesse qui ne l'a pas connue ?

🎧🎤 https://www.comitedesfamilles.net/podcasts/memoires-et-combats-rencontre-avec-christophe-martet

18/05/2026

De quoi s'inquiéter effectivement 😥

À Lausanne, la conférence Afravih 2026 s’est ouverte dans un climat d’inquiétude rarement aussi palpable. Face à l’effondrement des financements internationaux, associations communautaires, médecins et activistes alertent sur des conséquences déjà visibles dans plusieurs pays du Sud.

17/05/2026

C'est tous les jours et pas que le 17 mai qu'il faut combattre toutes ces discriminations qui n'ont pas lieu d'être.