. The big challenge is to address the dual realities of people still dying from HIV in large numbers, and the large numbers of new infections. The upside is that there is a clear plan with clear goals on how to address this. In 2016, countries came together at the United Nations to
. Especially young men - often young black men. These infections occur largely in Eastern Europe and in Russia.. If we don't address those two groups, we won't solve the problem. But to address those two groups is not easy. The challenges in much of Eastern Europe and Russia relate to their marginalisation and discrimination as much as they are about services for key populations.
And the means we have to slow the rate of new infections in young women is not well suited to the need. It's not feasible for a young woman who is not thinking about HIV and aware of her risk regularly to take a tablet every day or even to get an injection. So we have to develop new technologies. We can't take the attitude that it's somebody else's problem. In many ways, in HIV, the response has taken our interdependence into consideration. For example, wealthy countries put resources into thefor poor countries to benefit. It's a shared responsibility. The countries are not saying,"It's Africa's problem, we don't care." No, they're saying,"We understand that if we don't get HIV under control in Africa, it affects the whole world.