The objective of the public interest group GIP ESTHER is to reinforce capacities for the fight against HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases (Constitutive Convention - 2002).
GIP ESTHER is currently an operator that is actively present, through the system of French government aid for the most deprived countries or those with limited resources, to contribute to the reinforcement of partner country competences to fight HIV and its co-infections.
The strategy of GIP ESTHER has been based on hospital twinnings that have really contributed, and in a very active manner, to the reinforcement of the competences of partner countries.
The reinforcement of care and treatment has developed on the basis of a comprehensive strategy, i. e. one that takes into account all the needs of the people who are infected: medical needs (access to treatment and laboratory tests), psychosocial needs (information, therapeutic education, support, the fight against stigmatisation, social or professional rehabilitation, etc.).
Such a diversity of actions has made it necessary to complete hospital twinnings with partnerships with associations and civil society groups.
The progress that has been made in a few years now puts forward the question of decentralization of treatment and care and integrating the fight against HIV in treatment structures.