Health is a human right—not a commodity to be sold. Everyone born on this planet has a right to healthcare, to live a good life. Inequalities must be addressed urgently, and the production of medicines & vaccines expanded, or the next pandemic will hit us even harder. #G20Brazil

📣 #WorldAIDSDay2024 is coming! This year’s theme, "Take the Rights Path," reminds us that protecting human rights is essential to #endAIDS by 2030. When rights are protected, health is protected. Learn more: unaids.org/en/2024-world-…

As world leaders gather this week at the #G20Brazil Summit, with the world at a crossroads, #G20 chair Brazil’s proposals light the path to global health security. Leaders need to take the path together. @g20org @GloGovProj

Winnie Byanyima says G20 chair Brazil has set out a proven practical plan that protects global health security: ➡️ share tech & support medicine production in every region ➡️ drop debt & enable fiscal space ➡️ tackle the social drivers of health crises globalgovernanceproject.org/the-g20s-role-…

All low- & middle-income countries must have access to the breakthrough HIV prevention drug lenacapavir. The world needs bold moral courage now to move past pharma monopolies & overturn the unjust inequities driving the epidemic. @HealthGAP @Afri_Alliance dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-1…

It was a pleasure hosting you at the Kenya Mission. Looking forward to making our World AIDS Day joint event a success.

PEPFAR honors the life and legacy of Cornelius Baker. A tireless champion, Cornelius dedicated his life to the HIV/AIDS response globally and in the U.S. We celebrate his leadership, passion, mentorship, and commitment. We have lost a hero and a friend. washingtonblade.com/2024/11/11/ant…

Cornelius Baker was a treasured member of the @PEPFAR family and an incomparable and indefatigable advocate for people living with and at risk of HIV around the world. Let us all honor Cornelius' life and legacy by continuing our work with redoubled energy and compassion.

Thank you Ambassador Lokaale of @Kenya for an insightful meeting! We discussed our upcoming joint event for #WorldAIDSDay. Excited for our collaboration to raise awareness and make a difference for the #AIDS response! @EndAIDS @CesrNunez @eelokaale @UNAIDS @KenyaMissionUN

An important meeting with @antonioguterres & @UN colleagues to tackle the key challenges facing our world - ranging from conflicts, the triple planetary crisis, inequalities, technological evolution, to development - with human rights at the heart of every solution.

I was honoured to meet with Prime Minister @ConilleGarry last week. We discussed the urgent need to restore security so that displaced people can return home & Haiti's institutions can deliver badly needed services- protection, health, education, water & more. Most of Port au…

I welcome the progress from the Decade for People of African Descent: laws reformed, voices empowered, cultures celebrated. Yet systemic barriers persist - ones we must dismantle. We need a Second Decade: driven by action, dismantling racism, and led by people of #AfricanDescent.

Faith leaders play an important role in the HIV response, breaking stigma and supporting those in need through their strong links with communities on the ground and ties with broad health networks. Hear the message of Reverend Canon Gideon Byamugisha from Uganda👇

UNAIDS mourns the passing of Cornelius Baker, a revered American HIV advocate. He is remembered by communities and governments around the world as a leader, mentor and friend.

Marie Curie, born #OnThisDay in 1867, was the: 👩‍🔬 First woman to win a Nobel Prize and 🏅 The only one to win in 2 different sciences. Her legacy and persistence continue to inspire us and #WomenInScience around the world.

I love this from Michael Marmot: “I’m not an optimist, I’m *hopeful*. If you’re an optimist you predict it will turn out well: so you fold your arms, & wait. If you’re hopeful, you understand it *can* turn out well: so you have to roll up your sleeves, & act.”

Have a listen to @DrEricGoosby and @benplumley thinking about global health, the future of the global #AIDS response and how we need to find new solutions to resourcing health. All within the context of the US elections. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-s…

Good news from the Brazilian G20 in Rio: “G20 commits to fighting the inequalities driving AIDS and other pandemics. Leaders back new initiative to widen production of medicines in every region.” unaids.org/en/resources/p…

Politico today sums up how the Brazil’s G20 Presidency is creating an opportunity to transform global health, through tackling inequalities & widening production of medicines, & how the next G20 Presidency, South Africa, has committed to take this transformative agenda forward:

Indigenous Peoples, people of African descent, and local communities are guardians of our nature. Their traditional knowledge is a living library of biodiversity conservation. They must be protected. And they must be part of every biodiversity conversation. #COP16Colombia