AIDS, four letters which, in a time when those under 30 cannot know, made one shudder with fear just to hear them lined up like this. Since then, the water of science has flowed under the bridges to the point that the virus is almost no longer transmissible, at least in developed countries like Canada and in large cities like Toronto. However, this does not prevent the Queen City from continuing to record in Ontario the highest rate of diagnosis of HIV, the AIDS virus.
“First of all, I would like to make a small correction. We haven’t talked about AIDS for several years, because AIDS was a complication of the disease which resulted from the virus. Now we are talking about people infected with HIV or at risk of being infected,” immediately corrects Normand Babin, interim general director of Action Positive HIV-Sida, a French-speaking non-profit organization working in the greater Toronto area. and southwestern central Ontario.
Mea culpa, we should perhaps also consider removing it from the name of the organization!
HIV positive woman, negative baby
More seriously, if this virus is increasingly under control, the fact remains that a slight resurgence has been observed by specialists, including in Toronto.
“The figures are slightly increasing, but what is important to remember is that we don’t really know… because the drugs we have today are active and effective to the point where the virus, in people people who take them, becomes undetectable,” specifies Normand Babin.
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