Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating
the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030
A/RES/70/266
59 (n). Welcome the progress made since the Monterrey Consensus 29 to develop
and mobilize support for innovative sources and mechanisms of additional
financing, in particular by the Leading Group on Innovative Financing for
Development. We invite more countries to voluntarily join in implementing
innovative mechanisms, instruments and modalities which do not unduly burden
developing countries. We encourage consideration of how existing mechanisms,
such as the Gavi International Finance Facility for Immunization, might be
replicated to address broader development needs. We also encourage exploring
additional innovative mechanisms based on models combining public and private
resources such as vaccine bonds, to support strategies, financing plans and
multilateral efforts as a means to accelerate the AIDS response;
59 (o). Note with grave concern that the sustainability of providing lifelong HIV
treatment continues to be threatened by factors such as poverty, lack of access to
treatment and insufficient and unpredictable funding, especially for those left
behind, that despite remarkable progress, if we accept the status quo unchanged, the
epidemic will rebound in several developing countries, more people will acquire
HIV and die from AIDS-related illness in 2030 than in 2015 and treatment costs will
rise; therefore, the international community should ensure that resource needs of
13 billion dollars are mobilized for the Global Fund’s fifth replenishment;
59 (p). Commit to mobilizing resource needs of 13 billion dollars for the Global
Fund’s fifth replenishment. By leveraging advances in science and applying
innovative solutions, the partnership is on track to reach 22 million lives saved since
its establishment by the end of 2016. A fully funded replenishment will save an
additional 8 million lives by 2020 and deliver economic gains of up to 290 billion
dollars over the coming years;
Ensuring access to testing and treatment in the fight against HIV and AIDS
60 (a). Commit to the 90-90-90 treatment targets 23 and to ensuring that 30 million
people living with HIV access treatment by 2020, with special emphasis on
providing 1.6 million children (0–14 years of age) with antiretroviral therapy by
2018, and that children, adolescents and adults living with HIV know their status
and are immediately offered and sustained on affordable and accessible quality
treatment to ensure viral load suppression, and underscore in this regard the urgency
of closing the testing gap;
60 (b). Commit to using multiple strategies and modalities, including, when
possible, voluntary, confidential, fully informed and safe community-based testing,
according to national context, to reaching the millions of people who do not kno w
their status, including those living with HIV, and to providing pre-test information,
counselling, post-test referrals and follow-up to facilitate linkages to care, support
and treatment services, including viral load monitoring, and to addressing
socioeconomic barriers to testing and treatment, including legal, regulatory barriers
to community testing, and commit to expanding and promoting voluntary and
confidential HIV testing and counselling, including provider -initiated HIV testing
and counselling, and to intensifying national testing promotion campaigns for HIV
and other sexually transmitted infections;
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Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
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