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DKan Prime Minister,
We urge you to protect remaining British funding globally hiv response, including seizing the incredible opportunity to endow game-changing new drugs aids epidemic in the next few years.
Building on your commitment to end HIV transmission within a generation in the UK, we urge you to extend it to the rest of the world and pave the way to ending AIDS by 2030.
The world was on track to meet this goal in 2024. But this year I have seen Unprecedented cuts in international aid From many countries, which has jeopardized this progress.
This will continue to happen unless global HIV funding is protected More than four million additional deaths and infections By 2030 – and the number of drug-resistant strains will double, bringing new threats to us all.
Despite being so close to the finish line, failure to maintain global funding and progress means we could return to the peak of the crisis two decades ago. Then, people were dying en masse and healthcare systems around the world were overwhelmed.
The UK’s recent pledge of £850m to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is a significant commitment to the global response. However, the UK pledge There was still a £150 million shortfall on its previous pledge in 2022Due to which an additional 255,000 people may die in the next three years.
In the coming weeks, your Government will confirm funding decisions for three small but vital global institutions to fulfill essential roles in the global HIV response: UNAIDS, Unitaid and the Robert Carr Fund.
The combined contribution required from the UK for these institutions will cost less than £1.30 per adult per year over the next three years.
We call upon you:
1. Champion the goal of ending AIDS globally by 2030 as a British priority and new HIV innovations, such as lencapavir, that make this goal a realistic possibility.
2. Provide adequate funding for UNAIDS, Unitaid and the Robert Carr Fund.
3. Ensure British funding is directed where it is needed most: to the communities most affected by HIV.
Regards,
geordie greig
Editor-in-Chief, The Independent
signed by:
Anne Aslett -CEO, Elton John AIDS Foundation
Baroness Barker – Liberal Democrat peer
Paula Barker MP – Labor MP
Lorraine Beavers – Labor MP
lord guy black – conservative peer
cyan berry – Harit Madhya Pradesh
lord cashman – labor colleague
Ellie Chowns – Harit Madhya Pradesh
simon cook – CEO, MSI Choices
Susan Cole – Phoenix Health Movement CIC
Robbie Curry – CEO, National AIDS Trust
Nick Dearden – Director, Global Justice Now
Carla Denyer – Harit Madhya Pradesh
charlie gamble – CEO, Tackle Africa
amanda hack – Labor MP
patrick kinemo – Tanzania Country Director, MSI Choices
Sir Andrew Mitchell – Conservative MP
David Mundell – Conservative MP
kate osborne – Labor MP
John Plaistow – Executive Director, Frontline AIDS
mike podmore – CEO, StopAIDS
adrian ramsay – Harit Madhya Pradesh
Bel Ribeiro-Eddie – Labor MP
Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury – labor colleague
Charles S Sonko – Infectious Disease Lead, Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
Dr Alice Welburn – Founding Director, Salamander Trust
Nadia Whittome – Labor MP