19/May/2010 - 20:17 - 5th Francophone HIV/Aids conference – Casablanca, 28th-31st March 2010   The president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy has turned his back on HIV/Aids patients, activists turn their back on him at the conference. Activists from Act Up-Paris, AIDES and Sidaction called on those working in the fight against Aids to turn their backs on Patrice Debré, Aids ambassador for France, during his closing speech at the conference.   We are still far from universal access to treatment which was promised for 2010, despite the repeated pledges made by the French president since he was elected in 2007.   Today we know …

19/May/2010 - 20:11 - “As a HIV positive French man and being fortunate enough to have free medication, I support HIV positive people the world over, and I support the Robin tax. I also support life! This tax on foreign exchange transactions would allow us to raise enough money to pay for treatment for every HIV positive person in the world”. With the appropriate hat, at the 5th Francophone conference on HIV here in Casablanca, Vincent Pelletier, director of PLUS and managing director of AIDES, has just launched the campaign to support the Robin tax.