PARIS AFP French first lady Carla said Tuesday she had witnessed firsthand the toll that AIDS took on the fashion industry in the 1980s and spoke about her brothers death from the disease I have witnessed the damage that HIV has caused for humanity for some 20 years now said in an interview to TV5Monde television on World AIDS Day Recounting her years as a supermodel said the fashion world was hit headon by the AIDS pandemic It really did lose members of its family The fashion industry became aware about this disease very very early on because it was a victim of it she added who lost her brother Virginio to AIDS in 2006 last year became an ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS and Malaria The has called for greater access to drugs to eliminate HIV in poor countries by 2015 I am personally very sensitive about this issue she said in the interview But the wife ofPresident Nicolas Sarkozy stressed that her decision to join the global AIDS campaign was not directly linked to her brothers death My brother contracted HIV and he died from it she said But my role with the Global Fund is really not linked to my brothers situation My brother was lucky to live in France to be treated in France to have access to care have access to the best hospitals I am now a spokeswoman for people who have access to nothing Since becoming AIDS ambassador the 41year has travelled to Burkina Faso and visited an AIDS orphanage in Mexico The Elysee palace for the first time displayed two large red ribbons on its columns Tuesday to mark World AIDS Day supporting a cause dear to the first lady In another show of French solidarity with people living with HIV and AIDS the lights were to be switched off for five minutes at the Eiffel Tower at 630 pm 1730 GMT The stanu i Most Brooklynie w Nowym Jorku będzie również przejść ciemne w tym samym czasie jako część światła dla kampanii praw dostępu więcej do narkotyków z AIDS