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#WorldAidsDay - We're Not Ready for Future Pandemics - Report

Unless leaders tackle stark inequalities, the world could face 7.7 million Aids-related deaths over the next 10 years, the Joint UN Programme on HIV and Aids (UNAIDS) warned in a new report.

In an urgent call to action ahead of World Aids Day on December 1, the agency focused on ending the disease as a public health threat by 2030 said that if transformative measures were not taken, the world would stay trapped in the Covid-19 crisis and remain dangerously unprepared for all future pandemics.

"Progress against the Aids pandemic, which was already off track, is now under even greater strain as the Covid-19 crisis continues to rage, disrupting HIV prevention and treatment services, schooling, violence-prevention programmes and more," Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS Executive Director said. "We cannot be forced to choose between ending the Aids pandemic today and preparing for the pandemics of tomorrow. The only successful approach will achieve both".

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