Devex "HIV/AIDS may have fallen off the priority list for many countries and international bodies with the arrival of COVID-19, but advocacy for adequately funded responses must continue, according to Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman, president of the International AIDS Society.
“There's no such thing as ‘HIV is more important than COVID’ or even
‘one disease is more important than the other,’” the Malaysia-based
doctor said. “However, as we've learned over the past four decades, if
we don't adequately fund prevention programs and we don't adequately
fund treatment programs, then the outcome could be worse — and, in the
long run, could even be more costly.”
