VIDEO. In remission from HIV, a Marseillaise “barely dares to believe it”

She is the eighth person to be in remission from AIDS in the world. The first in France. Treated in Marseille by the teams of the CISIH (Information and care center for human immunodeficiency and viral hepatitis) of the Sainte-Marguerite Hospital and the Paoli-Calmettes Institute (IPC), the patient is doing well . For the rest, it is impossible to know more, she prefers to remain anonymous. The only clue is that she is now around sixty years old and lives in the Paca region.

A patient who “hardly dares to believe”

But this Monday morning, during a press point organized at Sainte-Marguerite hospital, she still spoke out in a message read by her doctors. Words filled with hope and encouragement for the patients and medical teams at the Paoli-Calmettes Institute and Sainte-Marguerite Hospital who have “contributed to making this healing possible” to which shehardly dare to believe“.