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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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Shobha Shukla – CNS
While the governments chant
the mantra of leaving no one behind , it is ironic that
they are abetting corporate grabbing of land and resources,
which is pushing farmers out of agriculture. Corporations
are exercising more and more control over food and
agriculture and influencing public policies. The forthcoming
United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021, tentatively to be
held in September 2021 and convened by the Secretary-General
of the United Nations, purports to transform the way the
world produces and consumes food, and leverage these actions
to deliver progress on all the 17 Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).
However, one fears that with UN
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