VIH/sida : révolutions et responsabilités

The purpose of this article is to look at the AIDS pandemic with an historical, ethical and contemporary eye, from its commencement to nowadays. This diachronic approach allows an understanding of the liabilities issues, which concern society players, which had been contaminated or not contaminated by AIDS. A specific emphasis is placed on this long journey, which runs from the quarantining of patients to the individual responsibility, to gain a better understanding of the revolutions that occurred during the past thirty years as well as their benefits in terms of progress and of repeated questioning. The clinic, close to patients with HIV, serves to illustrate the current real difficulty in adjusting each other in view of therapeutic advances. If behavior and mentalities have widely changed in some areas, for others it remains blocked under stigmatization and negatives prejudices. Ethics, which is the basis of the practice, is source of fundamental questionings. This is this deontology, respectful of the human in its integrity, which questioned here in terms of numerous revolutions, actual and future changes in conjunction with pathology.