It’s not about one country having all the answers and another having all the questions,” Kirsty McNeill, the minister for international development and Africa, said this week, describing the UK’s approach to partnerships, “but instead, bringing together different strengths to achieve far more than either of us could alone.”
Many of us who work in international development and advocacy will resonate with this framing. Shifting from hierarchical forms of aid to a system based on solidarity and partnership is something that many of us have tirelessly advocated for, and has long been a driving principal of the global HIV response.
