[Viva] Fwd: New UNAIDS report - Dangerous Inequalities

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Subject: New UNAIDS report - Dangerous Inequalities
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Urgent action to tackle inequalities can get the AIDS response on track
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Ahead of World AIDS Day, the new UNAIDS report "Dangerous Inequalities
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shows that inequalities are blocking the end of the AIDS pandemic. We are
writing to ensure that you are the first to read this critical news.

UNAIDS set out earlier this year that the AIDS response is In Danger
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rising new infections and continuing deaths in many parts of the world.

Today in its latest report UNAIDS shows that urgent action to tackle
inequalities can get the AIDS response on track. Dangerous Inequalities
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documents three key inequalities on which immediate action is possible and
urgent:

   - Gender inequalities and harmful masculinities driving HIV;
   - Stark lack of progress for key populations, driven by inequalities
   that undermine the overall AIDS response;
   - Inequalities for children whose lives must matter more than their
   market share

Worsening financial constraints are making it more difficult to address
those inequalities.

The report shows how world leaders can tackle those inequalities, and calls
on them to be courageous to follow what the evidence reveals.

The report
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is launched along with a press release
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briefing and data slides and is prefaced by a foreword from Winnie
Byanyima, UNAIDS Executive Director.
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Watch the report launch

Issued ahead of World AIDS Day, the report complements UNAIDS World AIDS
Day campaign and call to *Equalize*
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Full materials for World AIDS Day are available here:  World AIDS Day 2022
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*GENDER INEQUALITIES AND HARMFUL GENDER NORMS ARE HOLDING BACK THE END OF
AIDS.* The effects of gender inequalities on women’s HIV risks are
especially pronounced in sub-Saharan Africa, where women accounted for 63%
of new HIV infections in 2021. Harmful masculinities are discouraging men
from seeking care. While 80% of women were accessing treatment in 2021,
only 70% of men were on treatment. UNAIDS called for actions including
ensuring girls’ access to secondary education and tacking gender-based
violence.
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*KEY POPULATIONS AROUND THE WORLD NEED A BETTER RESPONSE* Data in this
report shows *no significant decline* in new infections among men who have
sex with men in either West and Central Africa or East or Southern Africa
in the past decade. Key populations generally have lower access to HIV
services. But community-led services can change this—as highlighted in data
from some counties in Kenya where sex workers are accessing HIV treatment
equally. Countries that remove or avoid criminalization have seen greater
progress.
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*WE NEED TO TACKLE THE INEQUALITIES IN ACCESS TO TREATMENT BETWEEN ADULTS
AND CHILDREN*

While over three quarters of adults living with HIV are on antiretroviral
therapy, just over half of children living with HIV are on the lifesaving
medicine. In 2021, children accounted for only 4% of all people living with
HIV but 15% of all AIDS-related deaths. Closing the treatment gap for
children will save lives.
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*GREATER GLOBAL SOLIDARITY IS NEEDED* This report shows that donor funding
is helping catalyse increased domestic funding: increases in external HIV
funding for countries from PEPFAR and the Global Fund during 2018-2021 were
correlated with significant increases in domestic funding from national
governments.

New investments to address HIV-related inequalities are urgently needed. At
a moment when international solidarity and a surge of funding is most
needed, too many high-income countries are cutting back aid for global
health. In 2021, funding available for HIV programmes in low- and
middle-income countries was US$ 8 billion short. Increasing donor support
is vital to getting the AIDS response back on track.
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*LATEST GLOBAL HIV STATISTICS*

   - 38.4 million [33.9 million–43.8 million] people globally were living
   with HIV in 2021.
   - 1.5 million [1.1 million–2.0 million] people became newly infected
   with HIV in 2021.
   - 650 000 [510 000–860 000] people died from AIDS-related illnesses in
   2021.

See the full factsheet
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the UNAIDS website

*THE WAY FORWARD*

*“We know what to do to end inequalities. Ensure that all of our girls are
in school, safe and strong. Tackle gender based violence. Support women’s
organisations. Promote healthy masculinities—to take the place of the
harmful behaviours which exacerbate risks for everyone. Ensure services for
children living with HIV reach them and meet their needs, closing the
treatment gap so that we end AIDS in children for good. Decriminalize
people in same-sex relationships, sex workers, and people who use drugs,
and invest in community-led services that enable their inclusion — this
will help break down barriers to services and care for millions of people.”*
Said Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS
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