Sport et VIH-sida : de l’exclusion des séropositifs à l’accompagnement des « malades »

• Main Authors: Mélanie Perez, Sylvain Ferez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses Universitaires du Mirail 2017-12-01
• Series: Sciences de la Société
• Subjects: HIV-AIDS; sport; physical activity; stigmatization; public health policy; risk management
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sds/6299

In the 1980s the sports environment is worried about the aids epidemic. Whereas most of the federations set up rules and hygiene procedures to secure the sports environment, the lgbt (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) movement denounces the exclusion logic and tries to create the conditions to include seropositive people into the events it organizes. Despite this wish of inclusion initiated on international level by the Federation of Gay Games (fgg), lgbt sports – on a national level – is not saved from the ordeal of aids and the stigmatization risks that goes with it. The discovery of efficient therapeutic treatments in the middle of the 1990s causes a break-up. hiv infection is then reconsidered and called a “chronical disease”. Public health policies introduce physical and sports activity and use it as a strategic leverage. Non-profit hiv organizations then come to the forefront to spread the incentives of physical activity and of “sport for health”. The aim of the article is to study this change that leads from a sports activity based on the desire to fight stigmatization of a community, to the rapid expansion of a physical activity aimed at the social and sanitary care of people with a low level of social, economic and material resources or unable to use them.