On this World AIDS Day, Sunday, December 1st, Jean-François Delfraissy, a physician and immunologist interviewed by France 24, underlines the importance of this initiative, which allows us to "better understand the global evolution of the epidemic. 'one year to another'.
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"We will have to find a vaccine"
"The death rate has dropped dramatically because you can now live with the virus if you follow a treatment with antiviral drugs," the specialist recalls. Thanks to this better care, "AIDS has thus gradually turned into a chronic disease," says the immunologist. "The virus therefore scares less youth who does not have this vision of mortality that dominated in the 1980s".
Despite considerable advances in the treatment of the disease, the track of a possible eradication of the virus is still "far", the doctor says. "A series of research is underway because as for all major epidemics, we will have to find a vaccine," he concludes.