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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60 (c). Commit to taking all appropriate steps to eliminate new HIV infections
among children and ensure that their mothers’ health and well -being are sustained
through immediate and lifelong treatment, including for pregnant and breastfeeding
women living with HIV, through early infant diagnosis, dual elimination with
congenital syphilis, and treatment of their male partners, adopting innovative
systems that track and provide comprehensive services to mother -infant pairs
through the continuum of care, expanding case-finding of children in all health-care
entry points, improving linkage to treatment, increasing and improving adherence
support, developing models of care for children differentiated by age groups,
eliminating preventable maternal mortality and engaging male partners in
prevention and treatment services, and taking steps towards achieving World Health
Organization certification of elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission;
60 (d). Commit to building people-centred systems for health by strengthening
health and social systems, including for populations that epidemiological evidence
shows are at higher risk of infection, by expanding community-led service delivery
to cover at least 30 per cent of all service delivery by 2030, through investment in
human resources for health, as well as in the necessary equipment, tools and
medicines, by promoting that such policies are based on a non-discriminatory
approach that respects, promotes and protects human rights, and by building the
capacity of civil society organizations to deliver HIV prevention and treatment
services;
60 (e). Work towards achieving universal health coverage that comprises equitable
and universal access to quality health-care services, including sexual and
reproductive health, and social protection, and includes financial risk protection and
access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for
all, including the development of new service delivery models to improve
efficiency, lower costs and ensure the delivery of more integrated services for HIV,
tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, non -communicable
diseases, including cervical cancer, drug dependence, food and nutrition support,
maternal, child and adolescent health, men’s health, mental health and sexual and
reproductive health, and to address gender-based and sexual violence, in order to
equip fragile communities to cope with these issues as well as future disease
outbreaks;
60 (f). Commit to taking immediate action at the national and global levels, as
appropriate, to integrate food and nutritional support into programmes directed to
people affected by HIV in order to ensure access to sufficient, safe and nutritious
food to enable people to meet their nutritional needs, for an active and healthy life
as part of a comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS;
60 (g). Commit to working towards the target of reducing tuberculosis-related
deaths among people living with HIV by 75 per cent by 2020, as outlined in the
World Health Organization End TB Strategy, as well as commit to funding and
implementing to achieve targets set in the Stop TB Partnership – Global Plan to End
TB 2016–2020, to achieve the 90-90-90 targets to reach 90 per cent of all people
who need tuberculosis treatment, including 90 per cent of populations at high risk,
and achieve at least 90 per cent treatment success, including through expanding
efforts to combat tuberculosis, including drug-resistant tuberculosis, by improving
prevention, screening, diagnosis and affordable treatment and access to
antiretroviral therapy, and to 100 per cent coverage of intensified tuberculosis casefinding among all persons living with HIV, with particular attention to underserved
and especially at-risk populations, including children, utilizing new tools, including
rapid molecular tests through joint programming, patient -centred integration and
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