French sociologist and HIV/AIDS activist Daniel Defert dies aged 85
French sociologist and HIV/AIDS activist Daniel Defert has died at the age of 85. Defert was the partner of Michel Foucault, the writer, philosopher, and literary critic who died of an AIDS-related death in 1984. Following his passing Defert founded AIDES, the first national HIV/AIDS organisation in France. The organization’s name is a play on […]