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 community, the workforce, the private sector, the media and civil society, including women’s and community-based organizations, feminist groups, youth-led organizations, national human rights institutions and human rights defenders , and recognize their contribution to the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 6 on AIDS and implementing the commitments set forth in the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, 25 and call upon stakeholders, as appropriate, to support Member States in ensuring that country-driven, credible, costed, evidencebased, inclusive, sustainable, gender-responsive and comprehensive national HIV and AIDS strategic plans are funded and implemented as soon as possible with transparency, accountability and effectiveness; 2011–2016: Reflecting on unprecedented achievements and acknowledging those left behind 31. Recognize that the AIDS response has been transformative, demonstrating outstanding global solidarity and shared responsibility, advancing innovative cross sectoral and people-centred approaches to global health and fostering unprecedented levels of comprehensive research and development; 32. Welcome the achievement of the HIV and AIDS targets of Millennium Development Goal 6 and recognize that, while significant progre ss was made on all the Millennium Development Goals, urgent efforts are needed to complete the unfinished business of the Goals and the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS as we implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030; 33. Note with deep concern that the HIV epidemic remains a paramount health, development, human rights and social challenge inflicting immense suffering on countries, communities and families throughout the world, that since the beginning of the epidemic there have been an estimated 76 million HIV infections and that 34 million people have died from AIDS, that AIDS is the leading cause of death among women and adolescent girls of reproductive age (age s 15–49) globally, that about 14 million children have been orphaned owing to AIDS, and that 6,000 new HIV infections occur every day, mostly among people in developing countries, and note with alarm that, among the 36.9 million people living with HIV, more than 19 million people do not know their status; 34. Welcome the significant achievement in extending access to antiretroviral treatment to more than 15 million people living with HIV by 2015, but express grave concern that despite the recommended expansion of antiretroviral treatment eligibility to all persons living with HIV, more than half of all people living with HIV do not know their status, 22 million people living with HIV remain without antiretroviral treatment, and a substantial proportion of people on antiretroviral therapy face social and structural barriers to good health, including poor -quality care, economic constraints, stigma and discrimination, harmful practices and beliefs, inefficient service delivery models, poor nutrition and lack of food, medication side effects and misuse, and lack of comprehensive social protection, care and support , and as a result do not start treatment in a timely fashion, struggle to adhere to treatment and fail to achieve viral suppression, resulting in a growing risk of emergence of drug-resistant strains, which poses a threat to the expansion of effective HIV treatment and prevention; _______________ 25 Resolution 65/277, annex. 7/26