It is The world, his former employer who announced it. Co-founder of the Aides anti-AIDS association and former journalist for the afternoon daily, Frédéric Edelmann, also affected by HIV, died Thursday at the age of 72, his former daily said on Friday.
He also founded the Heritage Without Borders association to protect it throughout the world.
Pioneer in the fight against AIDS
In 1984, Frédéric Edelmann responded to the call launched by Daniel Defert after the death of the philosopher Michel Foucault, his companion, to found an association to help AIDS patients. With Jean-Florian Mettetal, the three men were to “be the first to invent what we will henceforth call the ‘fight against AIDS’: support for patients in hospital – where they were then treated like plague victims -, creation of a hotline, Sida Info Service, which Frédéric Edelmann sets up at home in his small apartment on rue Michel-le-Comte, organization of information meetings, legal advice, invention of new forms of burial”, recalled The world.
Then with Jean-Florian Mettetal, Frédéric Edelmann took over another association, Arcat-Sida, and launched the Journal du sida in 1988. He had been on the editorial staff of Le Monde since 1977 and “brought architecture into the pages of the newspaper”, giving him “an unprecedented echo in the public debate”, the daily pays tribute to him.