12/01/2023
In 2022, 39 million people were living with HIV. Though this is a 38% decline in new HIV infections since 2010, the work doesn’t stop here!
UNAIDS has mobilized a strategy, “End Inequalities, End AIDS”, that uses an inequalities lens to close the gaps preventing progress to end AIDS and sets out bold new targets and policies to be reached by 2025 to propel new energy and commitment to ending AIDS. These include:
* Increasing availability, quality and suitability of services, for HIV treatment, testing and prevention, so that everyone is well-served
* Reform laws, policies and practices to tackle the stigma and exclusion faced by people living with HIV and by key and marginalized populations, so that everyone is shown respect and is welcomed
* Ensuring the sharing of technology to enable equal access to the best HIV science, between communities and between the Global South and North
AIDS has impacted our world to the tune of 40 million deaths over the past forty years. If the targets and commitments in the strategy are achieved, the number of people who would newly acquire HIV will decrease to less than 370,000 by 2025.
Sisters, this what can you do through your sphere of influence to ensure inequalities blocking progress are eradicated? By uniting together, change can happen if we want it to.