Florence Riako Anam

Looking forward!! @cedricnini @SboNkosiZA

What an inspiring, energy filling PLHIV meeting today! Heartfelt reminder on why we do what we do at @gnpplus and why the decisions we continue to make, however difficult matter now more than ever! The 40 million people living with HIV globally want a HIV response that doesn’t forget that we exist. We matter and our needs are important! The cost of inaction is painful and huge for us. Preventable and treatable illnesses and death.
Thanks to the 37+ colleagues that joined us. Special shout out to colleagues from Asia, LAC and Oceania joining us so late and early morning! Gratitude to our board chair @MANOJPARDESI for making time to join us and for closing us out so powerfully and motivating us for the work ahead!#PLHIVLeadersNow @SboNkosiZA @cedricnini

Another opportunity to share, listen and learn. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow! Haven’t registered yet? Find the details below, and share with your networks #PLHIVLeadersNow @cedricnini @SboNkosiZA

As the @UNAIDS PCBoard meets today to deliberate the report on Transition and intergration of UNAIDS into the UN Systems, The Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) will make a statement through my colleague @cedricnini , a summary of this letter 👇🏿sent to the UNAIDS PCB Chair on behalf of GNP+, National and Regional networks of people living with HIV.

Transformation must focus on closing the testing, treatment, retention and viral suppression gaps for adults and children to end Advanced HIV Disease (AHD) and AIDS related deaths and as a powerful means of HIV prevention through Treatment as Prevention( TaSP) and U=U

Thank you so much to all the PLHIV network leaders for your collaboration and service.

Read and share full statement below. #PLHIVLeadersNow @SboNkosiZA @AchrekarAngeli

This was one of the most frank and informative webinar I’ve ever moderated.

Speakers brought clear, candid realities to the persistent gaps in the HIV cascade. The data on when we lost direction and focus on testing, treatment, and viral suppression (2019) was sobering.

There were urgent calls for institutionalised engagement between people living with HIV and parliamentarians, and for renewed advocacy that treats RETENTION in care as the vital link between diagnosis, treatment, and sustained viral suppression for all PLHIV.

We must be outraged that 570,000 people living with HIV died in 2025.
Be deeply concerned that 9 million still have not accessed treatment and that children remain part of this population. And curious to know why 10.6 million people living with HIV are not virally suppressed despite biomedical progress.

People living with HIV must demand that leaders in the HIV response return focus of HIV to the cascade gap, strengthen retention, and move closer to epidemic control and the lives we can still save. OUR LIVES.

Progress in the HIV response should be recognised. But it cannot come at the expense of the gaps and barriers that the data continues to show year after year.

Leaders in the HIV response must end AIDS-related deaths. Huge thanks to all the speakers and participants and to @AHFcares for the collaboration #PLHIVLeadersNow @SboNkosiZA @cedricnini