According to the INVS in 2012, France had 6,400 new people with AIDS. Worldwide, 2.5 million new cases were counted. In 30 years, HIV has killed more than 36 million people worldwide and, according to WHO, there were 35.3 million carriers of the virus in 2012. So begins the 20th annual Sidaction AIDS is not defeated and it will take a lot of research to find a way to destroy it.

Nevertheless, the efforts of medicine, for research and for the prevention, provide encouraging results. Antiretroviral triple therapy associates have demonstrated their effectiveness and stabilize the disease. The number of new cases is declining everywhere these treatments are available. However, still a gap between the North and the South, especially sub-Saharan Africa where, according to the WHO, an adult of 20 live with HIV. Looking ahead with new avenues being explored include gene therapy successfully tested at the University of Pennsylvania.

In children, there is hope for healing babies treated early and perhaps others, such as this little girl born in Mississippi and whose remains undetectable viremia two years later. These advances are only hopes, but they show that researchers can provide new ways to combat this global disease when they have the means to work through a donation made ​​during the weekend or annual Sidaction.

This year, the operation of raising funds for research and prevention against AIDS brought these fruits as € 5 million in pledges have been made; a figure that has remained stable compared with the previous year. However donations still possible until April 15 online or by phone.