Nicolas and Christine, HIV-positive, tell their daily life

More than forty years after the “discovery” of HIV (for human immunodeficiency virus), the infection continues to spread throughout the world.

But if our understanding of the disease has progressed enormously, those who suffer from it sometimes remain ostracized, as evidenced by Nicolas and Christine, both HIV-positive...

A disease “associated with death”

“Me, when I announced it, I received death threats, insults, remembers Nicolas, president of the

association .

I even stopped going out to clubs because people were yelling at me and saying, 'Dirty AIDS, going to die!'”.

Christine, a volunteer at Sidaction, finds that despite the passage of time, “we haven't made any progress: being HIV-positive is always associated with death;

so you become the person you shouldn't meet”.

Discover their touching testimonies in this video from our partner Brut.

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