L’Sidaction association received 3.87 million euros in pledges for the fight against AIDS during the 30e edition of its annual collection weekend, an amount similar to that collected last year. “The public responded to the calls for donations launched by the association and was sensitive to the current issues in the fight against AIDS”announced the organization in a press release on Sunday March 24, noting a result “in balance with 2023”.
The association raised a little more than 3.9 million euros last year, a level close to 2022 but a little below the record reached in 2019 (4.5 million euros) and almost repeated in 2021 .
The collection, launched Friday with the support of thirty-five media partners, remains open until April 12 by telephone by calling 110 free of charge. And donations are possible all year round by Internet, mail or SMS.
The 30e edition was launched with the broadcast of a clip to which Mylène Farmer lent her voice, to music by Woodkid. Then an evening was broadcast on France 2, during which Line Renaud was surrounded by faithful like Jean Paul Gaultier and Muriel Robin.
“The journey is not over”
As in previous years, the funds will be donated to research and care programs and to community programs providing care and assistance to people living with HIV, in France and internationally, according to Sidaction. “Research must continue, towards a vaccine and a treatment to definitively control the virus”argues the association, co-founded in 1994 by Pierre Bergé and Line Renaud.
“There remains progress to be made for prevention, screening or access to treatment, even in France”declared to Agence France-Presse, ahead of the event, the president of Sidaction, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. “The journey is not over” And “We must not stop along the way”urged the co-discoverer of the virus in the early 1980s and Nobel Prize winner in medicine in 2008. In France, some 200,000 people live with HIV and 5,000 new HIV infections will be detected in 2022.