To battle HIV/AIDS properly, fight gender inequality, expert says
About 1,000 young women, mostly in East and Southern Africa, are infected with HIV every day, says Peter Sands from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
06 September 2019 - 16:11
The next hurdle that must be overcome to dramatically reduce the spread of HIV is gender inequality, said the head of a fund that expects to raise $14bn to tackle the world’s deadliest infectious diseases.
An increasing proportion of the money that’s available to fight HIV infections should be spent on prevention rather than treatment and testing, said Peter Sands, the executive director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria...
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