Are we on the path to end AIDS by 2030?
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Shobha Shukla (CNS)
Contd from previous issue
But it has taken years post-efficacy to move into recommendations and to product introduction. The world has moved faster with cabotegravir for which approvals have come much faster. There are three companies in India that now have licenses to produce generic cabotegravir. But these would get in the market only around 2027. So, things are happening faster now, but not fast enough to keep pace with an epidemic that continues despite global targets, despite our desire to be done with AIDS,” said Warren.
The deadly delays between developing pathbreaking health technologies, and benefitting those for whom these were developed (the most at risk and marginalised and least likely to access care) must end. We have to ensure vaccines convert into vaccinations of the 'last person in queue' first - without any delay. Same holds true for the full range of disease prevention, diagnostics, treatments we have today.
“The fraying of solidarity between and within countries is putting progress in danger, but the path that ends AIDS is a path that has been proven, and is a path that leaders have promised to take. World leaders pledged to end the AIDS pandemic as a public health threat by 2030, and they can uphold their promise, only if they ensure that the HIV response has the resources it needs and that the human rights of everyone are protected,” said UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima.
The 5th HIVR4P Conference to be convened in Lima, Peru will bring together around 1500 participants from across a broad range of scientific disciplines, including representatives of key and affected populations in the HIV response to advance scientific knowledge, and enhance global scientific and community collaborations to address the challenges and opportunities in HIV prevention. Hopefully it will advocate for accessibility and availability to meet the needs and preferences of the most vulnerable people with a view to end AIDS by 2030.
(The writer is the award-winning founding Mana- ging Editor and Executive Director of CNS (Citizen News Service) and is a feminist, health and development justice advocate. She is a former senior Physics faculty of Loreto Convent College and current Coordinator of Asia Pacific Regional Media Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT Media).
Contd from previous issue
But it has taken years post-efficacy to move into recommendations and to product introduction. The world has moved faster with cabotegravir for which approvals have come much faster. There are three companies in India that now have licenses to produce generic cabotegravir. But these would get in the market only around 2027. So, things are happening faster now, but not fast enough to keep pace with an epidemic that continues despite global targets, despite our desire to be done with AIDS,” said Warren.
The deadly delays between developing pathbreaking health technologies, and benefitting those for whom these were developed (the most at risk and marginalised and least likely to access care) must end. We have to ensure vaccines convert into vaccinations of the 'last person in queue' first - without any delay. Same holds true for the full range of disease prevention, diagnostics, treatments we have today.
“The fraying of solidarity between and within countries is putting progress in danger, but the path that ends AIDS is a path that has been proven, and is a path that leaders have promised to take. World leaders pledged to end the AIDS pandemic as a public health threat by 2030, and they can uphold their promise, only if they ensure that the HIV response has the resources it needs and that the human rights of everyone are protected,” said UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima.
The 5th HIVR4P Conference to be convened in Lima, Peru will bring together around 1500 participants from across a broad range of scientific disciplines, including representatives of key and affected populations in the HIV response to advance scientific knowledge, and enhance global scientific and community collaborations to address the challenges and opportunities in HIV prevention. Hopefully it will advocate for accessibility and availability to meet the needs and preferences of the most vulnerable people with a view to end AIDS by 2030.
(The writer is the award-winning founding Mana- ging Editor and Executive Director of CNS (Citizen News Service) and is a feminist, health and development justice advocate. She is a former senior Physics faculty of Loreto Convent College and current Coordinator of Asia Pacific Regional Media Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT Media).