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    JOINT STATEMENT FROM NAP+CA & NAP+WA ON THE DISRUPTION OF ARV SUPPLY FOR 24,000 PLHIV IN GABON

    Please read and sign this Petition.

    This is 2022, less than a year after the World adopted a new global AIDS strategy calling to end inequalities, and to end AIDS as a public health crisis.

    Forty years after the first positive cases of HIV, we know how vital antiretroviral drugs are, at the individual and collective levels, to prevent HIV transmission or its acquisition. This situation is unacceptable and threatens the lives of people as well as the achievements of the response.

    We are in 2022 and research into effective and long-acting injectable treatments promises to broaden the range of ARVs and to go even further in treatment services centered on the needs of the people.

    This year, countries are getting ready, to announce their contributions to Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

    Meanwhile, in Gabon, thousands of people find themselves deprived of their basic right to ARV treatments. There are 24,000 people “under ARV treatment” who presently find themselves “out of ARV treatment” or at least threatened to be.

    We all know that Gabon is in a unique situation. Gabon is a ‘middle-income country’ and as such, part of the national response, in particular, the purchase of ARVs is covered by the national budget. As health partners, we plead for the co-financing of the response and the respect of the commitments made.

    As networks of PLHIV, our top priority is to ensure that our peers have access to services wherever they are, starting with access to ARVs.

    The situation in Gabon should be our priority: National Government, International Organizations, Bilateral Partners, and Civil Society Organizations. We want governments to respect their commitments. We must mobilize ourselves, to face the urgency of providing treatment now and to all PLHIV in Gabon. This is our responsibility; this is our view of the fight against inequalities, which today, is at the heart of the global strategy to fight AIDS.

    We urgently call on all stakeholders to convene a meeting to find a solution to this problem. This meeting should be convened and coordinated by UNAIDS whose relentless efforts to find a solution is commendable. Additionally, also work to ensure that it does not happen again. We call on the Government of Gabon, and on bilateral and multilateral partners, including the Global Fund to work together. The situation is no longer about calculating the level of income; it is about saving lives and avoiding a resurgence of the epidemic in a country that is already experiencing a generalized epidemic.

    The health and survival of more than 24,000 people living with HIV in Gabon are threatened because they have not had access to ARV treatment since several months now. Do we have to await any longer and to continue the macabre statistics of the dead, our dead? We, PLHIV refuse this collective massacre in the 21st century in front of the world. Our lives, the lives of people living with HIV matter and are important. People living with HIV are human and should not be sacrificed. If nothing is done, in a very short period of time, to supply these 24,000 people with ARVs and save their lives and the lives of their loved ones, we will witness an unprecedented catastrophe.

    This is not the time to find or identify those responsible for this disaster, we want ARVs for our peers in Gabon.

    Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
    We must not only respond to an emergency in one country, we must also work together to define and implement robust and resilient regional mechanisms to deal with these types of situations and ensure that efforts towards ending the epidemic is possible for every PLHIV worldwide.

    Let us respect ourselves, respect our commitments and our missions. Let us end inequalities and rebuild with fairness and equality for all.


    The Executive Secretary The permanent Secretary
    NAP + Central Africa Region NAP+ West Africa Region



    Isaac TITA GANHOUE Israel
    Email ;- tisaac5000@yahoo.com Email: ganhoueisrael@rapplus.org
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