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The French National AIDS Council (French: Conseil national du sida) is an advisory body established in 1989 with a mission of "to offer its views on the problems faced by society as a result of AIDS and to make useful suggestions to the government".
Sol En Si which is short for Solidarité Enfants Sida in French (translated as Solidarity Children AIDS) is a French charity organization founded in 1990 by Myriam Mercy et Alain Danand for helping children suffering from AIDS and their families.
Sidaction, a French charity organization; Two journals published by the Botanical Research Institute of Texas; The fruit of the Coula edulis tree, also called the Gabon nut; Amphoe Sida, a district in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand; Sida, a village near Gali, Abkhazia, the site of the 1997 Sida shooting
UNAIDS Headquarters building in Geneva, Switzerland. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS; French: Programme commun des Nations Unies sur le VIH/sida, ONUSIDA) is the main advocate for accelerated, comprehensive and coordinated global action on the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The first French association, Vaincre le sida, was created by homosexual activists in 1983. [12] In 1984, the sociologist Daniel Defert, following the death of his companion Michel Foucault, took the initiative to found an association linked to the fight against AIDS. [13]
Sidaction is a major French public event that started in 1994 in France for raising awareness and collecting charitable funds for AIDS.It donates important sums to various AIDS charities, HIV/AIDS research, institutions specializing in medical care and social aid for those suffering of HIV/AIDS in France and internationally.
Project SIDA (1984–1991), or Projet SIDA ("Project AIDS" in French), was a joint scientific project between Zaire, the United States, and Belgium to study AIDS in Central Africa. Headquartered in Kinshasa , Zaire ( DRC ), Projet SIDA was designed as a collaboration between foreign scientists with experience studying epidemics and local ...
In April 1991, the doctor and journalist Anne-Marie Casteret [] published an article in the French weekly magazine the L'Événement du jeudi showing that the Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine [] [citation needed] knowingly distributed blood products contaminated with HIV to haemophiliacs in 1984 and 1985, [1] leading to an outbreak of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C in numerous countries. [2]