AIDS 2.0

Didier LESTRADE & Gilles PIALOUX

Different views from a patient and a doctor about the 30 years of an unprecedented pandemic.

It may seem paradoxical to celebrate the anniversary of an illness that has affected 33 million people in the world since its outbreak. People no longer speak about what AIDS is today. This is not a history book but a book of many different stories that gives voice to those affected by AIDS. Beyond the personal accounts, it incites true reflection about medical responsibility in the 1980s and the blindness of the gay community. A resolutely human book in which the authors let themselves go, personally, way beyond their professions.

- An informative book that emphasizes the stories of men instead of Great History.
A foundation for the fight against the illness for the next decade

Didier Lestrade, 53 years old, is gay and has been HIV positive for 25 years. Selftaught journalist, he is co-founder of Act Up - Paris in 1989.  Engaged in therapeutic activism, he has become a leader in the fight against the resumption of the contamination within gay communities in occidental countries.
Gilles Pialoux, vice-president of the Fight Against AIDS French Society, has directed a service that follows 3,000 people living with AIDS since 2004. Among other things, he was co-editor of the report The Reduction of Risks in the High-Risk Groups in relation to HIV and STIs (2009-2010) that was submitted to the government. He is also the editor of www.vih.org.