It was Mayor Bopp Dupont who founded it in 1999. The association “Agir contre le Sida”, dormant since 2014, now has a new president and a new life to support the sick, especially those from distant islands. There are around ten new cases per year in Polynesia.
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It is far from having disappeared in the world … 36.5 million people live with the AIDS virus. In Polynesia, the association “Agir contre le SIDA” is entitled to a second chance with the arrival of a new president at its head, while it has been dormant for 5 years.
In fenua, nearly 400 people have been infected in the past thirty years and a young woman died in 2019 … A failure of public services according to the head of infectious diseases at the health department, Lam Nguyen Ngoc, who denounces the worrying increase in the number of infectious diseases in Polynesia. “Acting against AIDS” will have to speak loudly to be heard.
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