John Nkengasong, the U.S. global AIDS coordinator, is worried that if the world fails to eliminate HIV as a public health threat by 2030, political leaders will lose interest in fighting the disease and pave the way for its resurgence.
“We cannot relent,” Nkengasong told Devex in advance of the 25th International AIDS Conference in Munich, Germany, which began Monday.
But HIV advocates hope Nkengasong’s own government shares that sense of urgency.