Editing Daniel Defert (section)

== AIDS research and activism ==
After the death of his partner Michel Foucault from complications related to AIDS, Defert founded [[AIDES]], the first AIDS awareness organization in France.<ref name="lhumanitequandonquestionne" /><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/a-voix-nue/la-creation-d-aides-9233998 | title=La création d'Aides | date=16 February 2023 | access-date=16 February 2023 | archive-date=16 February 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216212400/https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/a-voix-nue/la-creation-d-aides-9233998 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The name invokes the French word for "help" as well as the English acronym for the disease (the French acronym is SIDA). Defert served as president of AIDES from 1984 to 1991.<ref name="lhumanitequandonquestionne" />

Defert was a member of the scientific committee for human sciences of the International Conference on AIDS (1986–94); member of the World Commission for AIDS ([[World Health Organization]]) (1988–93); member of the National Committee for AIDS (1989–98), of the Global AIDS Policy Coalition of [[Harvard University]] (1994–1997), and of the French Haut Comité de la Santé Publique (from 1998).{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

Defert was the author of numerous articles in the domain of ethno-iconography and [[public health]].<ref>Işıl Baş, Donald Cary Freeman (eds.), ''Challenging the Boundaries'', Rodopi, 2007, p. x.</ref> He was awarded the decoration of Knight of [[Legion of Honour]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mort de Daniel Defert : nous poursuivrons sa lutte contre le VIH/sida |url=https://tetu.com/2023/02/07/mort-de-daniel-defert-nous-poursuivrons-sa-lutte-notre-lutte-contre-le-vih-sida/ |access-date=7 February 2023 |website=Têtu |language=fr-FR}}</ref> and received the [[Alexander Onassis]] prize for the creation of AIDES in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 May 1988 |title=POTENTIAL NOBEL PURSUITS - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/05/27/POTENTIAL-NOBEL-PURSUITS/9892580708800/ |access-date=7 February 2023 |website=UPI |language=en}}</ref>