The film
From the first AIDS cases in 1981 to the initial triple therapies in late 1995, ten governments succeeded one another in France under the Mitterrand presidency. These overwhelmed governments navigated the darkest moments of the epidemic, directly impacting policy. Ministers, Secretaries of State, and Members of Parliament recount how they doubted, then confronted, an enemy from which everything had to be learned. The battle against AIDS was not only scientific; it was also political.
Through exceptional and rare testimonies, we revisit the confrontation between politicians and HIV.
Featuring:
Willy Rozenbaum
Physician, co-discoverer of HIV
Jack Lang
Minister of Culture
1981-1992
Didier Lestrade
Founder of Act Up-Paris
Jean-Martin Cohen-Solal
Special Advisor to Edmond Hervé
1983-1986
Jean-Baptiste Brunet
Epidemiologist
Claude Weisselberg
Advisor to Edmond Hervé
1983-1986
Daniel Defert
Founder of AIDES
Jean-François Girard
Director General of Health
1986-1997
Michèle Barzach
Minister of Health
1986-1988
Claude Évin
Minister of Health
1988-1991
Philippe Douste-Blazy
Deputy Minister of Health
1993-1995
A film produced by François Pomès for Label News
