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Subj: A request for help from France on HIV prevention info
Date: 6/14/2004 2:30:23 AM Central Daylight Time
From: direland@nyc.rr.com
Reply-to: aidsact@CritPath.Org
To: aidsact@CritPath.Org
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The following request for help is from Olivier Jablonski, coordinator of the
newly-launched French HIV-prevention group WARNING. Olivier wants to get in
touch with medical and AIDS professionals and epidemiologists who have
studied in depth the effect of various forms of risk reduction in sexual
practices other than the condom (the use of gels, to take one example).on
reducing the spread of the HIV virus. He'd also like to know whether there
have been any studies of the ratio between the number of non-protected
sexual encounters and the chances of HIV infection. The French are currently
in the throes of a major debate about the increasingly widespread practice
of barebacking, which has produced a new upsurge in infection rates. the
WARNING group is militantly in favor of condoms, and quite critical of the
largest ASO, AIDES, which has been suggesting that there are AIDS-prevention
methods which stop short of condom use that are efficient.
If you have any ideas, documents, or contacts to propose to help our French
friends, would you be good enough to send them (in English is okay) to
Olivier Jablonski at:
jab@no-log.org
Thanks, D.I.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Olivier Jablonski"
To: "Doug Ireland"
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 11:47 PM
Subject: demande


Bonjour,

Comment vas-tu? Moi, je ne dors pas donc je réfléchie. Je suis en train
d'étudier les conséquences de la nouvelle politique de prévention VIH que
propose l'association français AIDES. Il s'agît de réduction des risques,
du genre, si tu ne mets pas de capote, mets au moins du gel. Je crois
qu'on en a déjà parlé.

Je cherche à entrer en contact avec des épidémiologues qui auraient
réfléchi sur l'épidémie de sida et son évolution chez les gays. Et qui
auraient étudier les différents sénarios d'évolution de cette épidémie en
fonction du type de prévention conseillé, ou en fonction du nombre de
rapport non protégés, de la prévalence du VIH dans la population gay. Si
tu as des idées, fais-moi signe.

Merci
Olivier

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Forwarded Message:
Subj: Didier Lestrade, the founder, disavows Act Up-Paris
Date: 6/14/2004 9:18:13 AM Central Daylight Time
From: abojab@no-log.org
Reply-to: aidsact@CritPath.Org
To: aidsact@CritPath.Org
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www.theWARNING.info


Press release - june 14 2004 (Paris - France)

Act Up-Paris is fifteen years old.
The founder, Didier Lestrade, disavows Act Up-Paris

Act Up-Paris, was founded by Luc Coulavin, Pascal Loubet and Didier
Lestrade fifteen years ago. This month, Act Up saw fit to celebrate
this anniversary. In this press release, I want to explain why I
completely disavow this association. I am resigning from forever. I am
no longer a member. I am cutting all ties with this association, to
which I have dedicated fifteen of the most passionate years of my life.
I am not doing so with a light heart. I have never threatened to do so.
I am not particularly seeking a media sensation. If this information
is diffused by the media, that's not my responsibility.

But I am obliged in all honesty to stop giving my support to the
decline, the bad management, the imbecility and the lack of courage of
this association. For the last eight years I have been trying to make
Act Up understand that it has to get more involved in prevention. I have
failed and my many friends have also failed. I am publicly repudiating
Act Up because I have nothing to hide, because I want to make it known
that this association is no longer doing its job. Worst, it is now
implicated in the poor "management" of the AIDS epidemic in France.

Act Up deals with everything, therefore Act Up deals with NOTHING.
Act Up has not properly assessed the revival of the AIDS epidemic among
homosexuals.
Act Up has allowed the phenomenon of barebacking develop and grow in France.
Act Up has put up with the scandalous delay by the Institut National de
Veille Sanitaire in releasing the figures of the "Compulsory Declaration
of Seropositivity" (several of its members participate in the meetings
of the INVS).
Act Up launched an appeal for donations in November 2003, alerting
public opinion to its financial crisis. At the extraordinary General
Assembly of March 2004, the executive committee explained that there was
in fact no financial crisis.
Act Up is hiding the truth from its members by not distributing the
complete minutes of its meetings (for example, the minutes of the
General Assembly, the scene of major confrontations, have still not been
drawn up).
Act Up is now run by the most inefficient executive committee in its
history. For the third time in a row, the president of the association
is seronegative, and it shows.
Act Up contacts the media through ridiculous press releases, parodies of
the frank and honest activist spirit of its early days.
Act Up has not managed to reach an agreement with the association Aides
on a common discourse of prevention.
Act Up has agreed in principle to accept paid ads by the Le Dépôt sex
club in its militant publication Action.
Act Up does not have the courage to out gay politicians who should be.
Act Up criticizes others, but cannot take a critical look at itself.
Act Up has elected as treasurer Eve Plenel, the daughter of the
journalist Edwy Plenel of the Monde newspaper.
Act Up no longer attracts more than thirty people to its weekly meetings.
Act Up is no longer a homosexual association.
Act Up has lost its leadership in the issue of generic drugs.
Act Up is too close to the review Vacarme.
Act Up should make better use of its money.
Act Up has lost its sense of priorities.
Act Up has lost touch with its base.
Act Up no longer interests anybody.
Act Up has lost its intelligence.
Act Up is no longer even funny.
Act Up no longer has any ideas.

Act Up believes itself to be exemplary.
Act Up no longer is.

Didier Lestrade
lestrade@free.fr

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