With aid funding falling by 70%, a change to HIV response is needed. The continent must treat health as a matter of sovereignty rather than charity.
The Guardian opinion piece
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak now being fought across the region shows again what Africa already knows. When an emergency arrives, the continent cannot wait on distant supply chains or other people’s goodwill. It must make and move the things that keep its people alive. The fight to end AIDS by 2030 runs on the same truth.
Africa has earned the right to set the terms of that fight. Over two decades the continent helped turn the epidemic around. AIDS-related deaths have fallen by 59% since 2010 and new infections by 68%. Nearly 22 million Africans are alive today on daily treatment. Keeping them alive is a permanent commitment.
That obligation now meets a hard fact. External health aid to Africa was estimated to have fallen by 70% between 2021 and 2025. The model that brought the response this far, in which Africa delivered while others financed and directed, is ending whether or not anyone plans for it. The only real choice is whether the continent leads the transition or absorbs the shock.
Read the full opinion piece here.
Source : The Guardian
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