VIH'Gilance

15/08/2026

En quatrième de couverture du numéro 136 de 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀, Picola pose à visage découvert et nous explique 𝗶ndétectable = 𝗶ntransmissible (𝗶=𝗶) avec ses mots 💬

Aujourd'hui, une personne séropositive avec une charge virale indétectable ne peut transmettre le VIH. Grâce aux traitements, la présence du virus dans l’organisme est si faible qu’elle n’est plus détectable. Le VIH est alors 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗘 : que ce soit par voie s3*suelle ou d'une quelconque autre manière 🙌

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Le numéro 136 de 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 est disponible sur aides.org
🔗 www.aides.org/remaides/numero-136

📸​ Nina Zaghian

14/08/2026

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🇺🇸 Krista Blake (1972 - 1994) pictured (left) with her beloved sister, in 1992.

Krista was 18 when she learned she had HIV, contracted from a boyfriend who never told her he was positive. Instead of hiding, she spent the rest of her short life speaking to thousands of teens and reaching millions more via Channel One, an in-school news network that aired in classrooms all across the United States.

Krista is rarely remembered these days, despite the fact her activism saved untold lives. Her story shreds and inspires me: "You still have your life, so don't waste it. Use it to do good things." 📖 by Jennifer McCollum

13/08/2026

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13/08/2026

12/08/2026

Peur du rejet, secret gardé pendant des années, discriminations persistantes… Dans les groupes de parole et d’auto-support organisés par AIDES, des personnes vivant avec le VIH racontent leur parcours et les difficultés à parler de leur statut. Entre souvenirs des « années de cendre », e...

12/08/2026

💡 Après une prise de risque, savoir quoi faire peut faire toute la différence

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11/08/2026

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🇺🇸 Michael Palm (1951 - 1998) was my father's best friend and business partner and he was closer to me than any uncle. He was a mentor and a friend and he always made me laugh. A gifted scholar and accomplished musician, we shared a love of the piano - and he brought me to some of my first performances at Carnegie Hall.

I remember the day my parents told me Michael had AIDS. I was 13 (Michael was only 43) and the sadness, anger and sinking feeling in my stomach that made me sit down too hard on the curb outside the restaurant was just devastating. I watched him living and dying for the next four years and I will never forget the last time I saw him - mostly wasted away and with his right eye patched over because he was blind from cytomegalovirus (CMV). It broke my heart then and it continues to break it.

An openly gay man in the top ranks of the corporate world, Michael was a leading philanthropist and a quiet, yet incredibly effective leader in the fight for civil rights for q***r and HIV positive folk. His actions in life, as well as his death, inspired me into a career fighting HIV and AIDS and it's work that I love. It makes me sad that he didn't get to see the adult I turned into but I am eternally grateful for all the ways in which he helped me find my path.

Michael, I love you. I miss you. I will always remember how fabulous and special you were. 📖 by Sarah Gluckstern

11/08/2026

Le consentement, en théorie, c’est clair : oui, c’est oui. Et non, c’est non. Dans un lit, une backroom, un plan chemsex ou une conversation Grindr commencée à 1h38, c’est parfois moins proprement rangé dans les cases. Entre le oui et le non, il y a tout un bazar : un je ne sais pas, un ...

08/08/2026

08/08/2026

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🇺🇸 When my brother Charlie died of AIDS in February 1985, the epidemic had barely begun. The disease, first reported in 1981, had come out of nowhere and no one had any idea what caused it or how to treat it.

Charlie couldn’t find a dentist willing to look at a painful wisdom tooth because none dared expose themselves to his saliva. Even the heroic people who did care for those with the disease couldn’t do much more than help them die.

Many of them are commemorated in panels of the amazing quilt assembled by The NAMES Project Foundation. Started by the gay community in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood the quilt is composed of 3 foot by 6 foot sewn panels created by friends and family to celebrate lost ones.

Charlie’s partner, a wonderful artist and devoted caregiver named Dick Obenchain created a panel featuring a brown cow and the names of the animals Charlie had loved, the people who had loved him and the Indian deities to whom he felt especially close. It appears in The Quilt: Stories from the NAMES Project a collection of images published in 1988.

The caption reads: “Charlie Braun, psychology professor at U.C. Santa Cruz for 7 years, spent most of his adult life living on his 42-acre ranch in Boulder Creek, California. ‘He loved nature, solitude and the gentleness of cows,’ writes his friend Dick Oberchain.”

His name is actually Obenchain. He is still doing amazing art work and has a gallery in Arizona.

I visited The Quilt back in 1987 with my mother. As we threaded our way through the endless patchwork, I was overwhelmed by how many were for children, incorporating teddy bears and teething rings. My mother died never having recovered from the loss of her son.

Charlie was a wonderful artist, a devoted teacher, and having spent several years in India, lived by Hindu principles of acceptance, generosity and wonder. He was solitary by temperament, but humane in spirit.

At the gate to his property in the hills above Santa Cruz, hung a homemade sign; “Please Respect My Privacy” it said. Someone else would have written, “Keep out.” 📖 by Suzanne Braun Levine