Living a normal life with AIDS is possible today thanks to treatments that are both more effective and lighter. In Saint-Martin, professionals involved in the fight against HIV took stock of the disease and new therapies.
Well-taken treatment allows you to have a life experience that is the same as someone who does not have HIV and also, and perhaps above all, allows you not to transmit HIV in any way.
Dr François Bissuel, infectious disease specialist at the Louis-Constant Fleming hospital center
Rather good news and confirmed during a meeting between the public and health professionals.
500 HIV carriers are monitored in Saint-Martin, which has recorded 55 cases since 2019, many of them seniors.
At the Louis-Constant Fleming hospital center, several treatments are offered to patients.
This new treatment, which consists of just one tablet per day, allows the person who takes it regularly to control their HIV infection, so that they will never fall ill from their infection. And above all, will never transmit the virus to anyone.
There is also Prep, a pill for the day before, but also for the day after.
It is a medication that must be taken, at least, within two hours before sexual intercourse and continued every 24 hours if the sexual risk continues. And thanks to this medication, we can be almost 100% sure that the person who takes this Prep will not be contaminated with HIV.
But another therapy puts an end, under conditions, to taking tablets. It offers two injections to be taken on a fixed date, every two months, and better confidentiality.
It doesn’t last long and it allows you, for two months, to have peace of mind, to be able to live normally, not having to take tablets, not having to hide your tablets, it’s also a way of improving confidentiality and this, with extraordinary efficiency.
The hospital pays tribute to caregivers and patients affected by this major progress towards the eradication of AIDS. However, it coincides with the resurgence of other sexually transmitted diseases such as Syphillis or chlamydia, due to less systematic use of condoms. The fight continues…
