Last posts on bulgaria2024-03-29T14:45:35+01:00All Rights Reserved blogSpirithttps://www.hautetfort.com/https://www.hautetfort.com/explore/posts/tag/bulgaria/atom.xmlJean-Luc ROMERO-Michelhttp://www.romero-blog.fr/about.htmlMes réponses en anglais au Blog de Ruslantag:www.romero-blog.fr,2009-11-13:24539882009-11-13T00:10:00+01:002009-11-13T00:10:00+01:00 1/ Apart from the fact that I am an elected representative of the...
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span xml:lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">1/</span></b> <span xml:lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">Apart from the fact that I am an elected representative of the Ile-de-France region, I am also president of « Elus Locaux Contre le Sida » (local elected representatives against Aids) which is a society of more than 14.000 French elected representatives-and I am also member of the National Council of Aids, which is a French organization made up of personalities from all kinds of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>groups (medical, charitable, religious) This organization offers different roads of action to the French public authorities.</span> <span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">Another one of my battles, which is very dear to me, is the one in favour of euthanasia.</span> <span xml:lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">I’m the president of ADMD (Association Pour le Droit de Mourir dans la Dignité) which is a Right-to-Die Society with nearly 50.000 members in France. It is indeed absolutely essential in my opinion that every single person should be able to decide for him/her self how he/she would like to end his/her life in the most dignified way possible.</span> <span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">Do not hesitate in to look up the website :</span> <span xml:lang="FR-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";" lang="FR-CH"><a href="http://www.admd.net/"><span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.admd.net</span></span></a></span> <span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">for more information.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">2/</span></b> <span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">In the battles I fight, I often come up against personal interests, prejudices, conservative and even fundamentalist ideologies. When one knows that 5000 people die a day because of Aids, I can not let the problem be played down or be told, „it is not my problem“. That is why I have been fighting for nearly 15 years because I think that even if this disease remains deadly, Aids can still be better tackled by politics.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">3/</span></b> <span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">The international community understood how high the stakes were in the fight against Aids. But understanding the stakes does not mean act accordingly. Let us be clear: today: the fight against HIV/ Aids is cruelly suffering from shortage of money! And because of this lack of money many millions of people die every year although their deaths could easily have been avoided! I have a concrete fear: that the economic crisis should have as a consequence the stagnation of the funds granted for the fight against the HIV/ Aids virus or, even worse, a diminishing of these funds. It would be a very serious and dramatic decision because the fight against HIV/Aids requires a massive commitment from every single country in the world. But when I see the enormous amounts of money released and given to the banks to face the crisis, I say to myself that money can be found, it is just a matter of political will.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">4/</span></b> <span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">If you don’ t mind, I will not come out with all the numbers because you can find them on the following link of UNAIDS: <a href="http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/bulgaria-2008-country-progress-report-en-pdf"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/bulgaria-2008-country-progress-report-en-pdf</span></a></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">I would just like to attract your attention on a population which is increasingly vulnerable in Bulgaria: the drug-users (those who use syringes). Globally in Eastern Europe, there is an explosion of new cases amongst<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> that population. I think it is necessary to watch what is going on and to install a policy of risk reduction ( exchanging the syringes etc). This is a policy which has been very successful in France on the level of public health.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span xml:lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">5/</span></b> <span xml:lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">The public authorities should stop having an ideological speech about Aids.</span> <span xml:lang="FR-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";" lang="FR-CH">They should become conscious of the fact that an efficient policy against Hiv/Aids should be pragmatic because Aids touches every <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>category of population. Ideological speeches and great sermons are not efficient for health and social problems.In my opinion it is just turning away from facts : to solve a problem, you must accept to see it as it is !</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span xml:lang="FR-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";" lang="FR-CH"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">6/</span></b> <span xml:lang="DE-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE-CH;" lang="DE-CH">First of all thank you for having invited me on your blog and all the best to you ! The message I would like to give your readers is an information about Bulgaria: do you know that your country denies Hiv infected people the possibility to spend some time there ? If I , who have been Hiv/ infected for the past 20 years, would like to spend a few months in your country, I am not allowed to do so!</span> <span xml:lang="FR-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";" lang="FR-CH">And only because of my serological condition.</span> <span xml:lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">Yet we all know that Aids is not a contagious disease! Please join us in our fight against these terrible discriminations on :</span> <span xml:lang="FR-CH" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";" lang="FR-CH"><a href="http://www.aids-sida-discriminations.fr/"><span xml:lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.aids-sida-discriminations.fr</span></span></a></span> <span xml:lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">or <a href="http://www.elcs.fr/">www.elcs.fr</a></span></p>