The world’s response to the 5-decade-old HIV/AIDS pandemic is faltering badly in the face of declines in spending and the COVID19 pandemic, according to an annual update from the Joint United Programme on HIV/AIDS.
The world’s response to the 5-decade-old HIV/AIDS pandemic is faltering badly in the face of declines in spending and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to annual update from the Joint United Programme on HIV/AIDS . “The data we are sharing today bring painful but vital news,” said the director of UNAIDS, Winnie Byanyima, at a press conference yesterday to discuss the release of the update. “The response to the AIDS pandemic has been derailed by a global crisis from the colliding pandemics.
In part because of the COVID-19 pandemic, international aid and domestic spending on HIV/AIDS also is declining, and the report notes the war in Ukraine has exacted a particularly heavy toll on health resources there and may have “ripple effects” as refugees flee across the hard-hit regions of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Assistance from donor countries other than the United States, which has the well-funded President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, dropped 57% in the past decade.
Byanyima stressed that even if UNAIDS targets aren’t met globally, they inspire individual countries to step up their responses. Even though the world missed the 2020 targets, “some countries achieved them,” she says. “They are not just aspirational. They are real. They are achievable.”
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