Hundreds of experts, interested parties and affected people met in Montreal, Canada, on Friday at the World AIDS Conference to discuss strategies in the fight against HIV. Among the participants, for example, is US immunologist Anthony Fauci.
The United Nations Program to Fight AIDS (UNAIDS) had already drawn attention in a report to the fact that the fight against HIV and AIDS had come to a halt worldwide. In the last two years – given the coronavirus pandemic and other crises – there was far less money available to fight HIV and AIDS than ever before. In some areas where the number of new infections had previously fallen, they are now rising again; The lives of millions of people are at risk.
At the World AIDS Conference, scientists now want to take countermeasures. “The situation today is not looking good. We are losing ground we have gained over the past 20 years in the fight against HIV,” said Byrne-Thomas Nyangwa, medical director of the charity Doctors Without Borders. “If we are not to lose the fight against HIV, we urgently need to focus our efforts on those most at risk and close the funding gap immediately.”
After the 2020 conference was moved to the Internet due to the coronavirus pandemic, this time the meeting will be rescheduled at least partially on-site until August 2 with speeches, discussions and question and answer sessions. in Montreal, Canada Instead. This conference, first held in 1985, is considered the world’s largest scientific meeting on the subject of AIDS.
