OPINION

Global HIV response is in danger

Oped, Taoufik Bakkali, Published on 27/07/2022

» Last year, world leaders came together at the United Nations in New York and agreed on a groundbreaking Political Declaration on HIV and Aids. That plan takes on the inequalities that drive the pandemic and will dramatically reduce new HIV infections and Aids-related deaths by 2025 and end the Aids pandemic as a global health threat by 2030 -- if world leaders fulfil it. But the world -- especially the Asia and Pacific region -- is not on track.