A/RES/70/266 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 cycle of progress across the 2030 Agenda, bearing in mind the universal, integrated and indivisible nature of the Agenda; 11. Call for urgent action over the next five years to ensure that no one is left behind in the AIDS response, that the returns on the unprecedented gains and investments made over the past decades are fully realized and that efforts are intensified, including through global solidarity, shared responsibility and political leadership, particularly given the rising population of people under the age of 25 in many high-burden countries, to avoid the risk of a rebound of the epidemic in some parts of the world and to tackle the growing rates of antimicrobial resistance which would result in increased human and economic loss, and express grave concern about the cost of inaction in the face of a looming crisis in access to and availability of treatment and inadequate progress and resources in comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support; 12. Reiterate that health is a precondition for and an outcome and indicator of all three dimensions of sustainable development, and that sustainable development can be achieved only in the absence of a high prevalence of debilitating communicable and non-communicable diseases, including emerging and re-emerging diseases; 13. Recognize that poverty and poor health are inextricably linked and that poverty can increase the risk of progression from HIV to AIDS owing to a lack of access to comprehensive treatment-related services and adequate nutrition and care services and to the inability to meet costs related to treatment services, including transportation; 14. Emphasize the continued importance, particularly given the 2015 World Health Organization guidelines recommending that antiretroviral therapy be initiated for everyone living with HIV at any CD4 cell count, of a more integrated and systemic approach to addressing people’s access to quality, people-centred health-care services in a more holistic manner, in the context of promoting the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and well being, universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences, universal health coverage, social protection for people in vulnerable situations, strengthening of local, national and international health and social protection systems, including community systems, integrated responses to address non-communicable diseases and HIV and AIDS, and preparedness to tackle emerging disease outbreaks, such as the Ebola and Zika virus disease outbreaks and those yet to be identified, and other health threats; 15. Emphasize that, to guarantee the sustainability of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services, information and education, which are mutually reinforcing, these should be integrated with national health systems and services to address co-infections and co-morbidities, in particular tuberculosis, substance use and mental disorders, as well as sexual and reproductive health-care services, including prevention, screening and treatment for viral hepatitis and cervical cancer, as well as other sexually transmitted infections, including human papillomavirus, and services to respond to sexual and gender-based violence while noting the particular vulnerability of women and girls to these co -infections and co-morbidities; 16. Recognize that addressing the holistic needs and rights of people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV throughout their life course will require close collaboration with efforts to end poverty and hunger everywhere, improve food and nutrition security and access to free, non-discriminatory primary and secondary 4/26