According to UNAIDS director, an additional 6.6 million people could be infected if the financing deficit is not filled by 2029, due to the loss of the world’s largest donor, responsible for 73 % of all international resources devoted to response to AIDS.
During a press conference held today (July 1) on the fourth International Conference on Development Financing (FFD4), Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, reported to journalists that budget cuts in the field of international development were jeopardizing the response to AIDS.
Ms. Byanyima said that in 2024, the number of AIDS deaths amounted to 630,000 for the year. And in four years, it could reach 4.2 million “.
“We see that a decline pandemic could reappear. The crisis is real, it is felt worldwide,” she added.
UNAIDS urges donor countries to maintain the course of a progressive transition. Managers must go beyond the traditional conceptions of financing health and development and adopt justice in debt, tax justice, justice in terms of intellectual property and global public investment.
She said: “Today, the weight of tax evasion and other tax abuses deprives Africa of 2.5 times more money than it receives through aid.
