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Global healthcare<br />
@MichelSidibe<br />
www.unaids.org<br />
We need to fast track the<br />
AIDS response during<br />
the next five years,<br />
increasing and frontloading<br />
investments<br />
exponentially. Although HIV-related<br />
funding increased by only 11 per cent<br />
between 2011 and 2014, the number of<br />
people receiving ART grew by 60 per cent.<br />
Three additional ingredients are<br />
critical. First is innovation. We need new<br />
medicines, preventive and therapeutic<br />
vaccines, female-initiated prevention<br />
commodities and, ultimately, a<br />
functional cure – and completely<br />
new ways to deliver all these<br />
to people.<br />
Hand in hand with<br />
innovation is the need to<br />
continue expanding and<br />
strengthening private sector<br />
collaboration. One case of a<br />
successful partnership in <strong>G20</strong><br />
members is Danlan, a community-based<br />
organisation working for lesbian, gay,<br />
bisexual and transgender rights in China.<br />
It combines information technology with<br />
community outreach, including links<br />
to HIV services in its dating application<br />
on social media for its 15 million users.<br />
Danlan has been instrumental in<br />
26bn<br />
Annual investment<br />
needed to fight AIDS,<br />
peaking in 2020<br />
dramatically increasing uptake for HIV<br />
testing among these populations.<br />
Second, reaching communities left<br />
behind is perhaps the most critical<br />
ingredient for success. This mandate<br />
cuts across all SDGs, including those<br />
dedicated to economic growth,<br />
industrialisation and innovation.<br />
Third, accountability is central<br />
to ensuring that promises<br />
are kept. I urge the <strong>G20</strong>,<br />
as the premier forum for<br />
international economic<br />
cooperation, to commit to the<br />
fast-track goals and targets for<br />
2020 in its communiqué and to<br />
hold itself accountable. Efforts<br />
to end AIDS must form an integral<br />
part of the <strong>G20</strong> agenda to build inclusive<br />
and prosperous societies.<br />
I urge the <strong>G20</strong> to spearhead efforts to<br />
fast track the AIDS response. China alone<br />
has lifted more than 700 million people out<br />
of poverty in the past three decades. With<br />
the <strong>G20</strong> in the lead, together we can end the<br />
AIDS epidemic by 2030. <strong>G20</strong><br />
G7<strong>G20</strong>.com September 2016 • <strong>G20</strong> China: The Hangzhou Summit 183
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