"Thailand has shown the model of integrating HIV services, introducing universal health coverage, and scaling up social contracting to reach the community organisations. and we need to pick up on that to share with other countries. Thailand already covers 90% funding of their responses and is developing a sustainability roadmap for the remainder. India is another example of progressive public policy to uphold the human rights of people in the HIV key populations, and they fund over 95% of their funding. In Malaysia, we find an example of diversified domestic resource mobilisation that targets the private sector. We can learn from these and other examples that make the right mix in different countries. We know what to do, the time of cherry picking in sustainability strategies is over. We must act now to enforce all relevant best practices and to keep the hope of ending AIDS alive."
Shobha Shukla - CNS (Citizen News Service)
(Shobha Shukla is the award-winning founding Managing Editor and Executive Director of CNS (Citizen News Service) and is a feminist, health and development justice advocate. She is a former senior Physics faculty of prestigious Loreto Convent College and current Coordinator of Asia Pacific Regional Media Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT Media) and Chairperson of Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA received AMR One Health Emerging Leaders and Outstanding Talents Award 2024). She also coordinates SHE & Rights initiative (Sexual health with equity & rights). Follow her on Twitter @shobha1shukla or read her writings here www.bit.ly/ShobhaShukla)
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