People's Vaccine Rallying cry by Winnie Byanyima

People's Vaccine Rallying cry by Winnie Byanyima

"This is how change happens! You are how change happens!" says Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS Executive Director. "We, the communities fighting AIDS, we know the cost in lives when life-saving medicine is held up by patents and a refusal to share know-how – by the prioritization of profits over everything else. And we know too how fair access is secured – it is never given, it is always won. We don’t have time to wait. Over 17,000 health workers have died in the past year. We don’t have time to wait. Waiting helps the virus spread, mutate, and become more dangerous." For more, go to unaids.org