Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics

News | November 7, 2025

G20 Statement sets out actions to protect public health by fighting inequalities. Experts say the inequality-pandemic cycle can be broken.

The Ministerial Statement issued from the G20 Ministerial in Polokwane has set out concrete actions to protect public health by fighting inequalities. The statement details key global and national steps to address the inequality-drivers of pandemics including AIDS and to help end TB, to advance access to medicines and to strengthen global health security.

News | November 3, 2025

REPORT: Inequality is making pandemics more likely, more deadly and more costly

A report by world-leading economists, public health experts, and political leaders released today ahead of G20 meetings, Breaking the inequality-pandemic cycle: building true health security in a global age, shows that inequality is making the world more vulnerable to pandemics.

News | October 28, 2025

Launch of new report by Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics, showing how inequalities drive current and future pandemics and what leaders need to do to address them

A new report by the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics, will be launched on 3 November in Johannesburg - and worldwide online - showing the danger of inequalities that are prolonging current pandemics, such HIV and tuberculosis, and making the world more vulnerable to future pandemics.

News | September 22, 2025

Ahead of UN General Assembly, Council investigates how inequalities make the world more vulnerable to pandemics

In advance of the UN General Assembly High-Level Meetings, a group of experts co-chaired by Nobel prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz, former First Lady of Namibia Monica Geingos, and Director of the Institute of Health Equity Sir Michael Marmot met to review how inequality gaps within and between countries are impacting global health security.

News | June 23, 2025

G20 action can overcome the inequalities driving pandemics

This year’s G20 provides a vital opportunity to protect global health security through coordinated action to unlock countries’ capability to tackle pandemics, say members of the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics.