« If we remove the treatments from millions of people with AIDS, we will not have deaths, but also increased circulation of the virus » – Liberation

Marion Aballéa, lecturer at the University of Strasbourg and specialist in contemporary history of international relations, published on March 20 A global AIDS history (1). She returns to the consequences of American cuts in the budget for combating HIV : For the first time since 2004, the annual number of AIDS victims could increase in 2025, and the planet could experience an epidemic recovery.

What was the historical role of the United States in the world fight against AIDS?

During the first twenty years of the epidemic, the answer is « self -centered » for Americans, as elsewhere. In the 1980s and 90s, AIDS was called a major, but national public health crisis, including the militants who will fight so that the American patients were taken into account by the various administrations. For the United States, the turning point in internationalization is clear: it occurs in 2003, and it comes from a republican administration. George W. Bush launches the presidential emergency aid plan for the fight against AIDS (Pepfar, according to the acronym in English), A true Marshall plan which suddenly multiplies the global financing of the fight against AIDS. Deput