JOHANNESBURG, South Africa: The UNAIDS 2020 Global AIDS Update gave us a clear indication why the world did not meet the fast-track targets by 2020: inequality, perpetuated by structural oppression such as gender inequality; economic disparity; including human rights abuses and violations. For most of us living in sub-Saharan Africa, we don’t need a report to tell us this. Our lives are a litany of inequality we know deep in our guts.
Inequality is growing for more than 70 percent of the global population, solidifying divisions and hampering economic and social development. Covid-19 is impacting the most people in vulnerable situations the hardest — even as vaccines for Covid-19 are becoming available, there is great evidence of inequality in accessing them.
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