"Where leaders are acting boldly and together, bringing together cutting-edge science, delivering services that meet all people's needs, protecting human rights and sustaining adequate financing, AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections are becoming rare.
"But this is only the case in some places and for some people.
"Without the inequality-fighting approach we need to end AIDS, the world would also struggle to end the COVID-19 pandemic and would remain unprepared for the pandemics of the future. That would be profoundly dangerous for us all."
-- UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima (Winnie_Byanyima), World AIDS Day 2021 message