Fight Aids Monaco remembers those missing as a result of HIV
Updated on 12/01/2021 at 19:34
Posted on 12/01/2021 7:30 PM
Fight Aids Monaco remembers those missing as a result of HIV
12/01 at 7:30 p.m.
Update 12/01 at 7:34 p.m.
By deploying its quilts on the roof of the Oceanographic Museum, the association recovered by Princess Stéphanie paid tribute to people missing as a result of HIV.
Ten years since a gesture has become the meeting point of Fight Aids Monaco, every December 1st, world day in the fight against AIDS. This gesture is the deployment of quilts, banners decorated and embroidered in memory of those who have disappeared as a result of HIV. The deployment responds to a ceremonial in the unfolding of these works, updated yesterday at noon on the roof of the Oceanographic Museum.
The gesture was born in the 1980s in the United States, at a time when people who died of AIDS were considered unworthy of funerals and honorable burials.
“The fight goes on”
Four decades later, at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic occupies all the media, the AIDS virus is still a reality. “The fight continues and UNAIDS encourages this year to fight the inequalities of which people living with HIV are victims, but also the inequalities in the face of pandemics” launches Hervé Aeschbach, the coordinator of Fight Aids, recalling in passing the importance of still and always continuing the screening tests.
In addition to the combative Elan, the deployment of the quilts yesterday around Princess Stéphanie was also, and above all, a moment of remembrance towards people close to the association, and missing since the start of its action seventeen years ago. .
On each quilt, which requires 170 hours of work, the relatives of the deceased imagine a decoration to pay homage to him.
It is also a way of appeasing the devastating impact of the disease, which takes lives too soon. An observation that the litany of names and ages of the disappeared recalled. They were all in their twenties and fifties.
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Fight Aids Monaco remembers those missing as a result of HIV