UN / AIDS

Senior United Nations officials today welcomed a breakthrough pricing agreement by global partners to accelerate the availability in low- and middle-income countries of the first affordable, generic, single-pill HIV treatment regimen. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:07
• Production Date: 21 September 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: JOINT UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME ON HIV-AIDS - UNAIDS
• Subject Topical: AIDS; AIDS PREVENTION; PUBLIC HEALTH
• MAMS Id: 1975144
• Parent Id: 1975144
• Alternate Title: unifeed170921c

Description

STORY: UN / AIDS
TRT: 1:07
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 21 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

1. Exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS:
“This is a lifetime announcement, making sure that this treatment will be made available to 92 countries and those people will be benefit from one of the best medicine we have as a first line.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS:
“What we are talking about today with this life-changing announcement, is about the quality of medicine, is about equity, is about the dignity, is about access to medicine as a human right.”
6. Wide shot, briefing room
7. Wide shot, Sidibé walking to the podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS:
“I want to call on our leaders for this global solidarity. We never had such a solidarity in any fight against a disease, and we need to continue to have it.”
9. Wide shot, conference room

Storyline

A breakthrough reduced pricing agreement has been announced today which will accelerate the availability of the first affordable, generic, single-pill HIV regimen containing Dolutegravir to be purchased in over 90 low and middle-income countries.

UNAIDS Chief Michel Sidibé today (21 Sep) told reporters that “what we are talking about today with this life-changing announcement, is about the quality of medicine, is about equity, is about the dignity, is about access to medicine as a human right.”

According to UNAIDS, the reduced price is at around 75 US dollars per person, per year.

The agreement is expected to accelerate treatment rollout as part of global efforts to reach all 36.7 million people living with HIV with high-quality antiretroviral therapy.

UNAIDS estimates that in 2016, just over half (19.5 million) of all people living with HIV had access to the lifesaving medicines.

Earlier today, during an event on the sidelines the General Assembly, Sidibé called on the world leaders to continue to have “global solidarity” on taking action to end AIDS.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) leads and inspires the world to achieve its shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.