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Advocates Are Unhappy with the Global AIDS Agenda's Drug Patent Language


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. ....

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Opinion | Stop Saying 'Post-Pandemic' - The New York Times


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The coronavirus may be receding in New York and Toronto and Tel Aviv, but for much of the world it is a more fearsome threat than ever: Fueled by the spread of more-contagious variants and abetted by a profoundly unequal vaccination drive — 85 percent of all doses have been administered in high- and upper-middle-income countries — the pandemic has already killed more people in 2021 than it did in all of 2020.
“Trickle-down vaccination is not an effective strategy for fighting a deadly respiratory virus,” the director general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said last month. “Covid-19 has already cost more than 3.3 million lives and we’re on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first.” ....

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