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Feb 18 • 6 tweets • 8 min read
Wonderful evening organised last night by @BCIU with friends and partners to celebrate @PEPFAR's #20YearsofImpact - such a bipartisan 🇺🇸 contribution to the world and us here in the Africa. #AUSummit2023 #PEPFARat20
I was inspired by the focus @POTUS gave in last week's #SOTU address to the life-saving impact of @PEPFAR. He said ‘the bipartisan effort thru PEPFAR has transformed the global fight against HIV/AIDS. It has been a huge success.’ What an endorsement!
The value of @PEPFAR is so much more than the billions of dollars that the 🇺🇸 people continue to provide for HIV every year. Look at PEFPAR’s impact & results - today they are supporting over 20m people with #HIV treatment in over 55 countries. #AUSummit
.@UNAIDS and @PEPFAR - we are all in the fight together. No doubt we can #endAIDS.

I promised this to my brother: We would fight and win this one.

We need everyone on board, all hands on deck.

Happy anniversary, PEPFAR!
#PEPFAR20 #AUSummit
At the @BCIU reception, @USAmbPEPFAR spoke powerfully about we would not have made the progress we have without country leadership at the fore. Eight counties about to hit 95-95-95.
Deep appreciation for your recognition of @UNAIDS as the 'Northern Star of this fight' 🙏🏾
.@USAmbPEPFAR, you’re so right. We must think about disruptive outbreaks. #HIV has defined global health for 25 years. Going forward HIV will be defined by disruptive outbreaks.
@BCIU #AUSummit

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Feb 19
Honoured to join @OAFLAD’s 27th Ordinary General Assembly: Closing the Gender Gap, to address a topic very close to my heart - how to #endAIDS on our continent, Africa. And in particular, how to protect our girls and young women from HIV and AIDS.
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Through @OAFLAD's #FreetoShine initiative, many of your countries have already made great strides toward eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Botswana🇧🇼, for example, was recently certified by @WHO as close to ending mother-to-child transmission. 👏🏾 #AUSummit2023 Image
We still have a long way to go - every 2 minutes, an adolescent girl or young woman acquires HIV. But we know the solutions to this: when girls complete secondary education their chance of getting HIV reduces by up to 50%.
@OAFLAD #AUSummit #EducationPlus
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Feb 17
AIDS is not over. As @USAmbPEPFAR has said: Africa remains the continent with the highest burden. More people probably died of #AIDS-related illnesses in 2021 than COVID on this continent.

-at the @NEPAD_Agency High Level Event on Health Financing at @_AfricanUnion #AUSummit Image
We celebrate our progress - over last 12 years or so, Africa is the continent that has made the fastest progress reducing new HIV infections & stopping AIDS-related deaths. We still have a challenge, and financing is critical part of it.
@NEPAD_Agency @_AfricanUnion #AUSummit2023 Image
We have been successful because of the political leadership of my predecessor @MichelSidibe who had foresight that @_AfricanUnion is the place where to mobilise political leadership to fight AIDS, forming strategic partnership w/AUC & Head of State to commit to targets. #AUSummit ImageImage
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Nov 17, 2022
AIDS is an injustice because today we have tools for prevention, testing & treatement. But last year we had 1.5 million people were newly infected with HIV, and AIDS took 650,000 lives. When you peel that and see who is dying, you see that #inequalites are at the root. #Equalize
In 🇺🇸 Black people are 8.5x more likely to be infected with HIV than white people. Black gay men in US face 1 in 2 risk of contracting HIV across their lifetime. This is a higher risk than the average in 🇺🇬 and almost as high as in hot spot countries like 🇿🇦.
#Equalize #EndAIDS Image
Countries w/highest HIV rates are struggling to pay debt, squeezing out expenditures on health & education. In the midst of COVID, when rich countries put $17TR into recovery, dev'ing countries were continuing to make debt repayments 4X their health budgets. This is an injustice! Image
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Jun 8, 2021
AIDS is not over. An AIDS death every minute is an emergency! HIV rates are not following the trajectory that we together promised. Indeed, amidst the fall-out from the Covid crisis, we could even see a resurgent pandemic.
#HLM2021AIDS
#endAIDSby2030
📽️ bit.ly/3pvOkqd
@UNAIDS @UN_PGA @AminaJMohammed But a never-ending HIV pandemic is not our fate. Even in spite of all the set-backs, we can #endAIDSby2030. Business as usual however, would fail. The programs that have secured substantial progress will not enable us to finish the journey because the road is blocked
#HLM2021AIDS
The evidence and analysis are clear. Inequalities in power, status, rights & voice are driving the HIV pandemic.

Inequalities kill.

As the #GlobalAIDSStrategy sets out: to end AIDS, we have to end the inequalities which perpetuate it. #HLM2021AIDS

👉🏾 webtv.un.org/live-now/watch…
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Jun 8, 2021
The #G7 are failing in their duty to provide global leadership to end the COVID19 pandemic for everyone everywhere. More than 1m people have died from COVID since G7 leaders last met back in February, when they pledged to increase the global vaccine supply.
@ChathamHouse @CHGlobalHealth @UNAIDS @HelenClarkNZ @DrMikeRyan @yates_rob @G7 Of the 1.77bn doses of COVID vaccines given globally, 28% have been in @G7 countries. In contrast just 0.3% of COVID jabs have been given in low-income countries.
COVID-19 related deaths are increasingly concentrated in low- and middle-income countries. This is heart-breaking.
The scale of this inequality is not an accident. It was predictable months ago. President Ramaphosa @CyrilRamaphosa called it “#VaccineApartheid” - and it is.

#EndInequalities
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Jun 7, 2021
It is 20 years since the first UN General Assembly Special Session and 40 years since the first cases of AIDS were reported. In this important year, we also mark 25 years since the world came together and establishment of @UNAIDS.
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@UNAIDS Since the start of the epidemic 77.5m people have become infected with HIV & 34.7m have died of AIDS. But in the past 40 yrs, we have made huge progress, the world came together, activists came together, govts came together- to turn the epidemic around
We find ourselves at a critical moment to get the world back on track to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the fragility of the health and development gains made over the past decades.
#HLM2021AIDS
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