The 22nd Fashion Dinner against AIDS, held on Thursday evening in Paris to close the Haute Couture Week, raised €705,000 for Sidaction.
The evening, organized by the AIDS association and the Fédération de Haute Couture et de la Mode, brought together many personalities. Laura Smet, Julie Gayet, Bilal Hassani, Eddy de Pretto, Amanda Lear, Nora Hamzawi, Aliocha Schneider and Benjamin Lavernhe were gathered around Jean-Paul Gaultier, ambassador for Sidaction.
A fight « to try to live in the future in a world without HIV »
The funds raised, down from €757,000 last year, are entirely intended for the fight against AIDS in France and internationally. « We must not stop the fight. It’s not over yet, » the fashion designer insisted.
« We are fighting to try to live in the future in a world without HIV. It will take time but we are progressing step by step, » assured the president of Sidaction, Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, co-discoverer of the virus and Nobel Prize winner in medicine, during a rather political speech.
« It’s complicated with what is currently happening in the United States. We talk a lot about the decrees of the new president of the United States (Donald Trump, editor’s note) which jeopardizes access to treatment for certain patients in poor countries and which also jeopardizes research, » added the virologist.
« We will continue the fight against AIDS in the face of the power of a new moral order that criminalizes women because they want to have an abortion or LGBT people because they want to lead their lives with the sexuality and gender that suits them, » urged Florence Thune, CEO of Sidaction, in a video message.
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