The NGO Delegation made several lively interventions during this PCB. Among others, we noted the need to simultaneously pursue the global commitment to ending AIDS, while at the same time ensuring HIV is not lost in the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), many of which also have a target date of 2030. And we re- emphasised the need to describe this process as movement towards universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support.

The global HIV epidemic is defined not only by the virus and medical interventions to control it, but also by social, economic and political conditions, including gender and income inequalities, human rights, and “the circumstances in which people grow, live, work and age, and the systems put in place to deal with illness,” that is, by theContinue reading “Addressing social and economic drivers of HIV through social protection”