For Gracia Violeta Ross, World Council of Churches (WCC) programme executive for HIV, Reproductive Health, and Pandemics, this is not an abstract policy discussion.
“It is about survival,” she said. “It is about dignity.”
It is about whether millions of people like Ross—who has been living with HIV for 26 years—will continue to have access to treatment, care, hope—and life.
“As governments prepare to adopt a new Political Declaration, I am reminded of the power these declarations can have—when they are backed by real commitment,” she said. “Political Declarations can change lives.”
The first global HIV commitment adopted in 2001, and signed by
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