Winnie Byanyima

A real highlight at Davos - meeting the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern.

From tackling child poverty, to the upcoming well-being budget, and from paid parental leave to reducing climate emissions, Prime Minister Ardern stands out as a truly transformational leader.

I thanked her on behalf of Oxfam International for her leadership on tackling economic and gender inequality, and climate change. And we discussed how to build momentum for progress towards achieving #SDG10 on reducing economic inequality.

Truly inspiring! Thank you for our meeting.

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AIDS is not over. It is one of the deadliest pandemics of modern times.

Since the start of the epidemic 77.5 million people have been infected with HIV. We have lost nearly 35 million people to AIDS. An AIDS death every minute is an emergency!

HIV rates are not following the trajectory that we together promised. Indeed, amidst the fall-out from the Covid crisis, we could even see a resurgent pandemic.

But a never-ending HIV pandemic is not our fate.

Even in spite of all the set-backs, we can end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Business as usual, however, would fail. The programs that have secured substantial progress will not enable us to finish the journey.

The evidence and analysis is clear. Inequalities in power, status, rights and voice are driving the HIV pandemic.

Inequalities kill.

As the new Global AIDS Strategy sets out: to end AIDS, we have to end the inequalities which perpetuate it.

Whether we are remembered as promise-breakers or promise-keepers, as failures or victors, as the people who ended AIDS, or only as the people who could have ended AIDS, is up to us.

I’m confident we will win, together.

Please see my full remarks to the UN General Assembly, at this week's High-Level Meeting on AIDS.
https://lnkd.in/djY7e9J

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