Campillo R; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 2000 Jul 9-14; 13: abstract no. WePeE4855.
R. Campillo, Act Up - Paris, BP 287, 45 Rue Sedaine, 75525 Paris Cedex 11, France, Tel.: +33 1 492 944 75, Fax: +33 1 480 616 74, E-mail: actup@actupp.org
Issues: On last January 10, one of the oldest AIDS activist slogan became the very official watchword of a special meeting of UNO Security Council devoted to the loss caused by the epidemic in Africa. AIDS destabilises the economies, engenders poverty and favours war; and war, with its violence and disorder spreads the epidemic. The maintenance of peace thus becomes a parameter of the fight against AIDS. When the global peacekeepers assert that ``AIDS is war'', a call for mobilisation must be heard, not far from the activists' one. But do the claims have the same content? Description: Through a thorough study of the High Council's rhetoric and leaning on the political stances the institutions that are represented stand up for, we will try to clarify the stakes of this ``war'' that suddenly worries the Security Council. May what all the observers have considered as a great stride, actually not be, on the contrary, a set back? Return to a strictly epidemiological vision of the disease, resurgence of an official suspicion toward people living with AIDS, relegation of care behind prevention ... We will ponder over the chances of succeeding and the limits of the visions of the different protagonists in this High Council session (World Bank, U.N., UNAIDS, USA): if absolute priority to prevention is confirmed, can there be any efficient prevention without health care of people living with the disease? Conclusion: The special meeting of the Security Council marks the apotheosis of an overhanging geopolicy the PWAs never take part to, and whose investments are assessed not according to their efficiency but to their profitability for the sponsor States.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Africa
- Delivery of Health Care
- Disease Outbreaks
- Health Expenditures
- Poverty
- United Nations
- War
- economics
- therapy
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UI: 102241278
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