• 25 June: Death of the philosopher Michel FOUCAULT. During the summer, his friend, the sociologist Daniel DEFERT, makes contact with a number of legal experts and doctors to discuss medical practice and the fact that the diagnosis is not communicated to the patient.
• 25 September: Having met the Terence Higgins Trust in London, Daniel DEFERT suggests to a few friends that they found the AIDES association.

• February: The first phone line is set up. The first information brochure is circulated by “Gai Pied” and others.
• April: AIDES asks for an audience at the Ministry of Health and requests a change in the law prohibiting the advertising of condoms and the installation of dispensing machines in meeting-places and saunas.
• 19 June: AIDES demands the open sale of syringes. Claude OLIVENSTEIN, who was responsible for the 1970 Act, supports the argument, but there is strong opposition from a medical lobby, particularly the vice-Chairman of the drugs committee, the psychiatrist DUGARIN and Doctor Francis CURTAY. They manage to avoid the debate on drug addiction and block changes to French policy.

• 1st March: The phone line becomes daily, between 7.00 pm and 11.00 pm.
• June: AIDES set up a “Drug” unit. The first prevention leaflet (photocopied) for drug users, SAMISDAT, is handed out at Les Halles.

• 8 January: The Minister of State for Health and the Family, Michèle BARZACH, visits the AIDES association: “I’d like to congratulate you on your work”.
• 27 February: Condom advertising is authorised.
• 13 February: AIDES opens its first hospital unit at the Saint-Antoine hospital. The first apartments belonging to the APPARTS association, a partner of AIDES, are inaugurated.
• AZT is authorised in France, supported by AIDES.
• 16-17 October: Médecins du Monde and AIDES present their universal declarations of the rights of AIDS and people living with HIV, which will be supported by the WHO.

• 2,3 and 4 September: AIDES holds its first national conference, organised by AIDES Aquitaine in Carcans-Maubuisson
• December: 1st World Aids Day. Founded by CIDAG.

• June: Worldwide Conference in Montreal: Daniel DEFERT holds a conference and gives a speech at the plenary session on “the patient as a social reformer”.

• AIDES goes to Morocco to set up an association.
  
• “Les Sœurs de la Perpétuelle Indulgence” is set up.
• 9 August: AIDES expertise is officially recognised as “beneficial to the public at large”, which helps to make it more financially independent, as it has the opportunity to receive donations and legacies.
• 13 November: “Sida Info Service” is founded. AIDES Ile-de-France launches the quarterly magazine “Remaides”.

• After 7 years, founder Chairman Daniel DEFERT leaves the Chairmanship of AIDES and the Annual General Meeting elects Doctor Arnaud MARTY-LAVAUZELLE as new Chairman. AIDES à Domicile is founded.

• The ASUD association is founded, hosted by AIDES.

• 8 July: The first syringe dispenser-exchanger in France is officially inaugurated. It is installed in Nîmes on the initiative of AIDES Languedoc Nord.
• 1st December: One-franc condoms.

• 7 April: 1st “SIDACTION” (270 million francs collected)
• 29 May: 1st “Walk for life”

• August: The “Maison du Soleil” is set up in Nîmes

• “AIDES à domicile”’s experiences are recognised and give rise to the 1996 DGS circular on the Home Help Programme.
• June: Arrival of the first tri-therapies

• Anti-HIV medecines  are available from pharmacies. AIDES’ Africa programme is launched.
• June: First training course on the use of antiretrovirals in Abidjan, bringing together association workers, sufferers and nursing staff from sub-Saharan Africa.

• 4 July: After 7 years, Doctor Arnaud MARTY-LAVAUZELLE leaves the Chairmanship of the AIDES National Federation. He becomes Honorary Chairman of the association. The Annual General Meeting elects Christian SAOUT.

• The CFES (French Health Education Committee) places 4 of AIDES’ gay photo-novels in its national catalogue.
• 1st December: AIDES launches the “Don’t be a party to AIDS in Africa” campaign and is involved in the “33 million Africans affected by AIDS: laboratories and politicians, get involved!” campaign run by a coalition of French associations (AGIR ICI group).

• 14 April: AIDES colloquium on “people living with HIV and accessing, returning to and staying in employment” at the Ministry of Employment and Solidarity.

• 1st March: Launch of the “MPs, do something for people living with HIV , but not just anything” campaign prior to and during the local council elections.
• “Work integration” TV adverts” (Grand Prix, Strategies/ best public interest campaign).

• 8 March: The 1st female condom dispenser is inaugurated by Roselyne Bachelot, Yvette Roudy, Anne Hidalgo, Clémentine Autain and Joelle Kauffmann in the Paris Underground (Bonne Nouvelle station). Launch of the national “Women and HIV/AIDS” campaign
• 8-11 May: “Homosexuality and AIDS”  Conference with Sida Info Services.

• 20th anniversary of AIDES
• Hélène Rossert, Managing Director of AIDES, is appointed Vice-Chairman of the World Fund against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
• April: The Mutual Fund AG2R-AIDES is launched for association users
• 27-28 November: Conference forpeople living with HIV
• 7000 people living with HIV discovered in France

• 2005 is decreed as the year in which AIDS will be the Great National Cause
• “Baby, Baby” prevention advert - Grand Prix for the best civilian campaign / National Assembly and “Lion d’or” / International Advertising Festival / Cannes
• July: the government publishes two decrees requiring undocument migrants to prove that they have been on French soil for at least three months in order to qualify for the right to State Medical Aid. In partnership with Médecins du Monde, the League for Human Rights, the Immigrant Information and Support Group and the Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples, we decide to lodge an appeal to the council of State against these decrees, which prevent those most in difficulty in the face of disease from receiving help on French soil.
• November: 1st Conference for migrants/foreigners living with HIV/AIDS in France
• Launch of the “What people living with HIV say” campaign in the press. The aim is to remind everyone that people living with HIV are still the victims of stigmatisation and discrimination.

• Throughout the year, AIDES has been inaugurating “What people living with HIV say” frescoes designed by leading urban graphics artists
• “Sugar Baby Love” prevention  advert – “Lion d’argent” / International Advertising Festival / Cannes
• June: “Sainte Capote”: the Final Court of Appeal finds in favour of AIDES, which had been prosecuted in Toulouse by an association claiming that it was defending the Christian integrity of France, for using a prevention visual containing a nun.
• October: As a result of the involvement of celebrities (Johnny Hallyday, Jean-Pierre Foucault, Claire Chazal, Muriel Robin, Laurent Ruquier, Sébastien Cauet and Didier Drogba), AIDES launches a new awareness campaign carrying a message of tolerance for people living with HIV and a thought that we should all question ourselves about our respect for others.
• November: 2nd conference for gay men suffering from HIV/AIDS
• December: Launch of the new AIDES website and public launch of the first 20-centime condoms throughout France, on sale in newsagent-tobacconists’.