A thousand people, according to the Government Delegation, demonstrated this Saturday in Madrid on the occasion of the celebration of third “Positive Pride” march, the aim of which was to make HIV visible and AIDS, as well as the stigmatization of these diseases.
Under the slogan “Our lives break prejudices”, the participants in the demonstration called by the National Coordinator of HIV and AIDS (Cesida) covered the stretch that separates the Ministry of Health from the Reina Sofía Museum, following the route emblematic of performative action. in the Madrid of the 90s of “Carrying”, by the artist Pepe Espaliú.
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, attended this event, which, in addition to express the need to normalize this diseasehighlighted “rapid, painless and absolutely anonymous” early detection tests.
Likewise, with García, the leader of Más Madrid in the Madrid Assembly, Manuela Bergerot, assured that “today, Living in Spain with HIV is not incompatible with a good quality of lifethrough medical research and public health systems.
For her part, the spokesperson for the PSOE-M at Madrid City Hall, Reyes Maroto, criticized the fact that “the Executive of Almeida did not want to support the Seville Declaration, whose commitment is to “trying to eradicate HIV by 2030”. “From the street we tell you no, that the PP has an exhausted project for this city and that the PSOE is working to form majorities and propose an alternative project,” assured Maroto.
