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The hospital reform in progress may be to a great extent a break for many innovating
actions which had to be carried out in the past... Therefore, there is today a considerable
risk, to see certain professionals moving away from the field of the HIV. It is, as already
said, difficult to mobilize new energies. We are in a transitional period which makes that
the "old hands" must do their best to relay their experiment and thus to teach and share
their knowledge with younger health care workers.
About the Southern countries, the role of associations of patients is particularly important
in terms of mobilization and education. A long-term action must be completed there taking
into account the importance of HIV care in these countries where finally one perceives that
the access to Haart is not any more the challenge that it could be in a recent past.
Inequalities still too obvious in certain areas must be withdrawn step by step. Let us insist
on the irreplaceable character of the NORTH-SOUTH exchanges within individual
initiatives of professionals or within international programs, as ESTHER program with
partnerships defined between hospitals or with actions carried out within the SIDACTION
with associative support but also financing therapeutic programs. There is important
programs carried out by other Non Governmental Organizations such as "Médecins Sans
Frontières", "Médecins du Monde" and many others with an important role of expertise.
The existence of an association of health care workers like the Société Française de Lutte
Contre le SIDA (SFLS), is an opportunity to have a personal reflexive attitude or more
largely inter professional exchanges.
In conclusion, the history of AIDS was marked by the advent of Haart, one of the most
important events, but it is quite clear that the health care workers, whatever their
professional category, must more than ever imply themselves, to progress technically and
ethically. On all the fields of HIV care, a multipartite working way should be with
associations of patients, the politicians, without forgetting cultural and religious
dimensions.
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