Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating
the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030
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Global Solidarity for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Response in Africa has played
in this regard;
52. Recognize that there are still gaps in financing for HIV and AIDS and the need
to further encourage technology transfer on mutually agreed terms, im prove access
to medicines in developing countries and scale up capacity-building and research
and development;
53. Note that many countries have the ability to invest much more than they
currently do: among developed countries, only four invest a share of the total
international resources available for AIDS that exceeds their country’s proportion of
world gross domestic product; and that both developed and developing countries
should work towards significantly increasing funding, including domestic funding,
for the HIV and AIDS response;
54. Recognize that if we do not fast-track the response across the prevention and
treatment continuum in the next five years, by increasing and front -loading
investments and massively scaling up coverage of HIV services, so as to reduce the
rate of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths, the epidemic may rebound in
some countries and we may not reach the ambitious, time -bound targets and
commitments hereby set, including the Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS 90-90-90 treatment targets,23 by 2020 and the target of ending the AIDS
epidemic by 2030;
2016–2021: global leadership on uniting to fast-track the HIV and AIDS response
55. Commit to seizing this turning point in the HIV epidemic and, through
decisive, inclusive and accountable leadership, to revitalizing and intensifying the
comprehensive global HIV and AIDS response by recommitting to the commitments
made in the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 and 2011
political declarations on HIV/AIDS and by fully implementing the commitments,
goals and targets contained in the present Declaration;
56. Commit to targets for 2020 to work towards reducing the global numbers of
people newly infected with HIV to fewer than 500,000 per annum and people dying
from AIDS-related causes to fewer than 500,000 per annum, as well as to eliminate
HIV-related stigma and discrimination;
57. Commit to differentiating AIDS responses, based on country ownership and
leadership, local priorities, drivers, vulnerabilities, aggravating factors, the
populations that are affected and strategic information and evidence, and to set ting
ambitious quantitative targets, where appropriate depending on epidemiologic al and
social context, tailored to national circumstances in support of these goals;
58. Recognize that achieving the fast-track targets can support global efforts to
eradicate all forms of poverty and inequality as well as to achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals, which are universal, integrated and indivisible, and in this
regard we should front-load and diversify resources to fast-track the AIDS response
and make progress on five strategic HIV-related areas, recognizing also that
investing in efforts to meet a wide range of Sustainable Development Goal targets
will support efforts to end the AIDS epidemic;
Front-loading and diversifying resources are critical to fast-tracking the AIDS
response
59 (a). Commit to increasing and front-loading investments to achieve the fasttrack targets by 2020 as an essential milestone towards the target of ending the
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