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
pre-qualification, to improve HIV prevention, treatment, care and support
programmes, as well as programmes for tuberculosis, sexual and reproductive
health, maternal and child health care and malaria;
Enhancing governance, monitoring and accountability will deliver results for and
with people
70. Commit to effective, evidence-based, operational mutual accountability
mechanisms that are transparent and inclusive, with the active involvement of
people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV and other relevant civil society
and private sector stakeholders, to support the implementation and monitoring of
progress on multisectoral national fast-track plans to fulfil the commitments in the
present Declaration;
71. Accelerate efforts to increase significantly the availability of high -quality,
timely and reliable data, including on incidence and prevalence, disaggregated by
income, sex, mode of transmission, age (including for ages 10 to 14 and over the
age of 49), race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, marital status, geographic
location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts, as well as the
strengthening of national capacity for the use and analysis of such data and for the
evaluation of efforts to improve population size estimates, resource allocation by
population and location and service access and to fill critical data gaps and inform
effective policy development, with due consideration of the confidentiality principle
and professional ethics and to enhance capacity-building support to developing
countries, including to least developed countries, landlocked de veloping countries
and small island developing States, for this purpose and provide international
cooperation, including through technical and financial support, to further strengthen
the capacity of national statistical authorities and bureaux;
72. Request the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS to continue to
support Member States within its mandate in addressing the social, economic,
political and structural drivers of the AIDS epidemic, including through the
promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and human rights, in
achieving multiple development outcomes, including actions to eliminate poverty
and inequalities, provide access to social protection and child protection, improve
food security, stable housing and access to quality education and economic
opportunity, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls,
and promote healthy cities and just and inclusive societies, and in further
contributing to intersectoral efforts essential to reach the global health goals and
ensure progress across the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in all settings,
including humanitarian, in order to fulfil the overarching goal to leave no one
behind, with the full involvement of Member States and relevant stakeholders;
73. Call upon the international community to utilize the AIDS machinery to tackle
broader global health challenges and to ensure that no one is left behind in
sustainable development efforts;
74. Ensure that the United Nations is fit to deliver results on the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development by reinforcing and expanding the unique multisectoral,
multi-stakeholder development and rights-based approach of the Joint United
Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and in this regard reaffirm, in accordance with
Economic and Social Council resolution 2015/2, that the Joint Programme offers the
United Nations system a useful example, to be considered, as appropriate, of
enhanced strategic coherence, coordination, results-based focus, inclusive
governance and country-level impact, based on national contexts and priorities;
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