2023-11-03 05:01:37
50 years, 50 fights
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Libération is 50 years old file Touched itself in the flesh, the newspaper will carry their voice at all stages of the epidemic.
June 1989. France is only buzzing about the bicentenary of the Revolution, but we are in Montreal where the fifth world conference on AIDS is taking place, with several thousand participants, a unique crowd, a mix of patients, activists, researchers and doctors. The article sent by Gilles Pialoux for the June 6 edition of Libération is titled “The sick march, research is stalling”: “It is an image that the 10,000 participants of the conference will have a hard time erasing of their memory, writes Libé’s special envoy, that of a hundred demonstrators, most of them homosexual and sick, who came to shout their weariness and their anger. And he’s right. Apparently, the Montreal conference marks a turning point, with the emergence of patient associations as public health actors. And a decisive moment will be the speech of an association in a plenary session, a first. It is that of Daniel Defert, who will have this formula that everyone will use: “The patient has become a social reformer.”
Daniel Defert does not come out of nowhere. At 52, he is an intellectual and sociologist. He is also an activist (first on the Proletarian Left) committed to humanity
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