Inequality is Set to Kill Millions – “We Have to Fight it Together.”

The UN commemorated World Aids Day on 30 November. Credit: UNAIDSBy Winnie ByanyimaGENEVA, Dec 1 2021 (IPS) This week I called out to the world to warn them that inequalities are making us all unsafe. I noted starkly our new analysis that we face millions of additional AIDS deaths – 7.7 million in the next decade alone – as well continued devastation from pandemics, unless leaders address the inequalities which drive them. We have to treat this threat as an emergency, as a red alert. To end AIDS, we need to act with far more urgency to tackle these inequalities. And it’s not just AIDS. All pandemics take root in, and widen, the fissures of society. The world’s failure to address marginalization and unequal power is also driving the COVID crisis and leaving us unprepared for the pandemics of tomorrow. We need all leaders to work boldly and together to tackle the inequalities which endanger us all. To tackle inequalities requires leaders to take these courageous steps: ● Support community-led and people-centred infrastructure ● Ensure equitable access to medicines, vaccines and health technologies ● Strengthen human rights, to build trust and tackle pandemics ● Elevate essential workers and provide them with the resources and tools they need ● Ensure people-centred data systems that highlight inequalities. At the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in June this year, member states adopted a bold new plan to end the AIDS ...
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