The inscription on the public agenda of migrants living with HIV/AIDS wasdelayed in France mainly by the model of republican unity, the cul- turalistapproach and the choice of the statistical categories. Its was after the arrivalof the antiŕroviral treatments, which ś the issue into afavourable context, that this specific problem was treated by the rights to stayand to access health care to foreigners living with HIV/AIDS. On the contraryof what was expected, these rights did not prevent the increase in the number ofcases of AIDS among foreigners, particularly at those from sub-Saharan Africa.This situation led to political controversy over the existence of "healthtourism". The fight against this risk then justified projects to restrictthe rights of foreigners. However, thanks to medical and associative activists,the right to stay and to access health care resists the current reformsregarding immigration and the new paradigm of fighting against "sufferedimmigration" (immigration subie).

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