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Winnie Byanyima
@Winnie_Byanyima
Passionate about justice & human dignity. In the struggle to #endAIDS. Executive Director of @UNAIDS. Opinions are my own.
Feb 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 9 min read
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.
#AUSummit 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
Feb 18, 2023 • 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!
Feb 17, 2023 • 8 tweets • 8 min read
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
Nov 17, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
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
Jun 8, 2021 • 8 tweets • 9 min read
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
Jun 8, 2021 • 8 tweets • 10 min read
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.
Jun 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
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.
#HLM2021AIDS #EndInequalitiesEndAIDS Image @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
Jun 5, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Today marks 40 years since the first case of AIDS was reported.

We stand in solidarity w/all people living with or affected by HIV, & we remember our friends/family who have died from AIDS-related illnesses.

Our mission: #endAIDSby2030.

#40YearsOfHIV
#40YearsOfHIV

Since the start of the epidemic 77.5 million people have become infected with HIV and more than 34 million have died of AIDS-related causes.

However, HIV is more than a disease.

It's an issue of social justice.

No one should be infected and no one should die. Image