There’s No Time To Backtrack The Fast-Track To Ending AIDS By 2030 – Huffington Post Canada
In October 2015, the renewed UNAIDS Strategy was approved amidst cheers from the global community at the 37th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB). The renewed strategy is an ambitious but viable, comprehensive road map charting the end of AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 and is couched within the Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs).
Just twelve months later, the conversation at this week’s 39th PCB has taken a much more somber tone as delegates grapple with the funding crisis that has rocked UNAIDS and that continues to stunt the broader community-led HIV response around the world. Ironically, this is where we find ourselves following a year that has been packed with high-level events, conferences, and meetings that have rallied the commitment of governments, donors and the global HIV community around a new 2016 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, to which Canada is a signatory.
