Shobha Shukla - CNS
Covid-19 has posed innumerable health, economic, and social challenges for all, including people living with HIV. It has exposed the fragility of health systems around the globe and has diverted political attention and funding from other infectious diseases like TB and HIV. The opening session of the 11th International IAS Conference on HIV Science (#IAS2021) held virtually from Berlin, saw a lively panel discussing the tale of the two most horrendous recent pandemics in the history of our civilisation: Covid-19 and HIV/AIDS.
Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, USA, said that we cannot forget HIV just because we happen to be in the middle of Covid-19. Decades of investment and science in HIV research, albeit as yet unsuccessful in developing an HIV vaccine, has played a major role in the development of highly successful Covid-19 vaccines in a very short period of time. But the fact that we have a
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July 19, 2021
LAHORE: Whereas COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated many inequalities worldwide, the IAS 2021 has put moral obligation upon rich countries to ensure in real time availability of vaccines to low and middle-income countries coping with the challenges of accessibility.
“If the world is dealing with a pandemic involving everyone and anyone, the common enemy is the virus, and not the people one’s having disagreement with. The global pandemic requires a global response, and therefore calls upon the entire world to pull together in a synergistic way to address a global pandemic,” says Dr Anthony Fauci, Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the US National Institutes of Health, while speaking Sunday at a panel discussion titled “From pandemic to pandemic” at opening session of IAS 2021– the 11th IAS Conference on HIV Science – virtually convened by International AIDS Society. Dr Ec