Aids will not be eradicated by 2030. The main stumbling blocks are gender inequality, marginalised individuals such as female sex workers, children living with HIV, and inequitable access to resources. This is according to UNAids’ executive director, ...
reveals that crucial steps, which can set the world’s Aids response back on track, must be taken to tackle inequalities, and calls on countries worldwide to take action.
“With education, we can reduce the risk by up to 50%, and with good quality comprehensive sexuality education, we can reduce it even further,” she said.Ineffective responses targeted towards marginalised individuals have made it challenging to prevent acquiring HIV, said Byanyima. “I suggest, let’s cosign these colonial and harmful laws to history, we don’t need them. God can judge them if they are wrong; we don’t need the laws, they take people away from services,” she added.
“We need to ensure that services for children living with HIV reach them and meet their needs. We need to close the treatment gap so that we can end Aids in children.” “This is widening inequality; this is not right. Now is not the time to step away, it is the time to step up,” she added.
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