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French National AIDS Council

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The French National AIDS Council (French: Conseil national du sida) is an advisory body established in 1989 with a mission of "to offer its views on the problems faced by society as a result of AIDS and to make useful suggestions to the government".

History

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Since its appearance in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has constantly posed new questions, both to society and to the international community. As a political, social and cultural as well as a scientific challenge, the fight against AIDS has required the definition of new approaches to public health, integrating into reflection on prevention and therapeutic care issues such as the rights of sick people or vulnerable in society, community mobilisations, the fight against stigma and discrimination linked to gender, sexual orientation or the socio-economic situation of those affected.[1]

To address these multiple issues, Professor Claude Got suggested in a report submitted in 1988 to the Minister of Health, the creation of a "national council for reflection on AIDS so as not to leave the government alone in the face of this situation". [citation needed]

The National AIDS Council (CNS) was therefore created by decree of the President of the Republic,[2] codified in 2003[3] in the Public Health Code[4] and amended in 2007. The missions of the CNS were extended to viral hepatitis and STIs in 2015.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Claude Got (1989). Rapport sur le sida : 23 août-3 octobre 1988 (in French). Paris: Flammarion. p. 348. ISBN 2-08-066332-1..
  2. ^ Décret No. 89-83 du 8 février 1989 portant création d'un Conseil national du syndrome immunodéficitaire acquis, JORF No. 35 du 10 février 1989, pp. 1915–1916, NOR SPSX8900013D.
  3. ^ Décret No. 2003-462 du 21 mai 2003 relatif aux dispositions réglementaires des parties I, II et III du code de la santé publique, JORF No. 122 du 27 mai 2003, pp. 9039–9043, texte No. 11, NOR SANP0321523D + annexe, pp. 37007–37231, texte No. 3.
  4. ^ Articles D. 3121-1 à D. 3121-14 du Code de la santé publique.
  5. ^ Décret No. 2015-210 du 24 février 2015 portant création du Conseil national du syndrome immunodéficitaire acquis (sida) et des hépatites virales chroniques, JORF No. 48 du 26 février 2015, texte No. 48, NOR AFSP1410251D.
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