HIV affects approximately 38.4 million people worldwide.Getty Images/iStockphoto – Surasak Taykeaw
Two days before World AIDS Day on December 1, we give the floor to researchers and actors in the field, mobilized to fight against the disease. HIV affects an estimated 38.4 million people worldwide, more than two-thirds (25.6 million) of them in the African region.
Through programs that include patients and associations, we will see how this community dimension is one of the pillars of the projects conducted internationally by the ANRS/Maladies Infectieuses Émergentes agency, which coordinates and finances French research on these pathologies. The ANRS was originally created in 1988 in response to the emergency of the HIV epidemic.
Joseph Larmarangepublic health demographer at the IRD and co-president of CSS14: Research in public health and in human and social sciences within theANRS | Emerging infectious diseases
Calice Talom Yomgnein charge of the ethics of care and research program within theassociation/collective REDS, in Cameroon.
Yalikhatou Camaranursing staff, project DIVINE in Guinea Conakry
Fatoumata Hanéhealth socio-anthropologist, teacher-researcher at theAssane Seck University of Ziguinchor, Senegal and member of the Evaluation Committee of CSS14 (Research in public health and human and social sciences) at the ANRS | Emerging infectious diseases. She participated in the ANRS ETEA-VIH research project on the sexuality of adolescents living with HIV in Senegal.
