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July 13, 2021
Volkan Bozkir, president of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations, addresses the general assembly meeting on HIV/AIDS.
Loey Felipe via UN Photo; courtesy of UNAIDS
Every five years, reps from governments and advocacy groups around the world come together via the United Nations to haggle out a document, called a political declaration, that sets the global agenda on fighting AIDS for the half-decade to come. In 2016, for example, the document said that the world was aiming for fewer than 500,000 new HIV infections, fewer than 500,000 AIDS deaths, and no more HIV-related discrimination by 2020. As is often the case with these declarations, the goal was not met: In 2020 alone, about 1.5 million people seroconverted and nearly 700,000 died of AIDS.
COMMENT | Soaring vaccine earnings create 9 new billionaires
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‘No one is protected from the global pandemic until everyone is’ has become a popular mantra. But vaccine apartheid worldwide, due to rich countries’ policies, has made Covid-19 a developing country pandemic, delaying its end and global economic recovery.
Most rich countries have been blocking the developing country proposal to temporarily suspend relevant provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Trips) for the duration of the pandemic to more affordably and effectively contain it.
Needed to quickly scale up production and affordable access to relevant diagnostic tests, medical treatments, personal protective equipment and prophylactic vaccines, the proposal – by South Africa and India in late 2020 – is now supported by more than two-thirds of WTO members.