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STORY: SEVILLA / FFD4 UNAIDS FUNDING CRISIS
TRT:2:39
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 JUNE AND 01 JULY 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN
30 JUNE 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN
1. Various drone shots, Conference centre
2. Various shots, conference participants and journalists
01 JULY 2025, SEVILLA, SPAIN
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS:
“If we do not fill the gap that has been created by the sudden removal of funding for our area in the next four years, that's up to 2029. There could be an additional 6.6 million newly infected people in the world.”
4. Wide shot, conference room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS:
“We could see 4.2 million more AIDS related deaths. That includes 300,000 children. Again last year, the number of AIDS related deaths for the year was 630,000. In four years’ time, you could up to these 4.2 million. Clearly, you can see that a pandemic that has been declining could be resurging again. The crisis is real, is being felt around the world.”
6. Wide shot, conference room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS:
“So today, the burden of debt tax dodging and other tax abuses is taking away 2.5 times more from Africa than it gets through aid.”
8. Wide shot, conference room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS:
“We need the rich countries to back the fundamental structural reforms that will give developing countries a chance to raise their own domestic resources and pay for their development. So they must embrace, we want rich countries in particular to embrace debt, justice, tax justice, intellectual property, justice and new models of financing such as the global public investment idea.”
10. Wide shot, press conference room
Facing losing the world's biggest donor - responsible for 73 percent of all international resources for AIDS response, an additional 6.6 million people could be newly infected if funding gap not filled by 2029, the head of UNAIDS said.
During a press conference at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) today (01 Jul), Executive Director of UNAIDS Winnie Byanyima told reporters that cuts to international development are putting the AIDS response in peril.
Byanyima said that in 2024, the number of AIDS related deaths for the year was 630,000. And in four years’ time, it could be up to 4.2 million.”
“You can see that a pandemic that has been declining could be resurging again. The crisis is real, is being felt around the world,” she added.
UNAIDS is urging donor countries to stay the course for a gradual transition. Leaders need to go beyond traditional understandings of health and development financing, and embrace debt justice, tax justice, intellectual property justice, and global public investment.
She said, “So today, the burden of debt tax dodging and other tax abuses is taking away 2.5 times more from Africa than it gets through aid.”
The Executive Director reiterated, “We need the rich countries to back the fundamental structural reforms that will give developing countries a chance to raise their own domestic resources and pay for their development.”
“So they must embrace, we want rich countries in particular to embrace debt, justice, tax justice, intellectual property, justice and new models of financing such as the global public investment idea,” she concluded.
