Stories written by Winnie Byanyima

Let’s Fight for What Counts to End AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

By Winnie Byanyima
Next week, taking place alongside the UN General Assembly, President Biden hosts a financing summit in New York of such importance that it will determine if millions of people live, will shape the world around us for years to come and will set the future direction of global health. At least $18 billion is needed to fund the work of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Inequality is Set to Kill Millions – “We Have to Fight it Together.”

By Winnie Byanyima
This week I called out to the world to warn them that inequalities are making us all unsafe. I noted starkly our new analysis that we face millions of additional AIDS deaths – 7.7 million in the next decade alone – as well continued devastation from pandemics, unless leaders address the inequalities which drive them. We have to treat this threat as an emergency, as a red alert.

To Beat Covid, Beat HIV, & Beat Inequality, Find the Money

By Winnie Byanyima
In this time of intersecting crises – the Covid crisis, the HIV crisis, the inequality crisis, and more – progress on all these crises is being blocked by another crisis: finance.

Overcoming COVID-19: World Leaders Must Finance a More Equal World to Beat Pandemics

By Winnie Byanyima
Leaders at this year’s World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings (April 5-11) will determine how best to recover from one of the biggest crises the institutions have faced since their founding in 1944—COVID-19’s impact and its economic aftermath.

Coronavirus Proves Need for Free Healthcare for All– Now

By Winnie Byanyima
The multi-layered crisis of the Coronavirus epidemic has been a dramatic shock to everyone. But, to communities affected by HIV and AIDS, the crisis has not only brought a further shock to already vulnerable people, it has brought other reactions too – a troubling sense of déjà vu, and a passionate, empathetic, fierce solidarity with all those affected by Coronavirus.

The Next UN Secretary General Should Be a Woman – and Must Be a Feminist

By Winnie Byanyima
The process for arguably the top political job on the planet is well underway.  And the time is right for a woman and a feminist to take the helm.

Op-Ed: Overcoming the Twin Hurdles of Inequality and Climate Change

By Winnie Byanyima
Two major injustices – inequality and climate change – are threatening to undermine the efforts of millions of people to escape poverty and hunger.