Declarations and Resolutions
Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS (2011)
At the 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York, USA, UN Member States adopted a declaration that will guide country responses to HIV over the next five years.
The Declaration not only recommits the global community to achieve universal access by 2015, but also articulates a number of global targets, transforming the principle of universal access from a vague aspirational goal into concrete and measurable objectives:
- Fifty per cent reduction in sexual transmission of HIV
- Fifty per cent reduction of HIV among people who inject drugs
- Fifty per cent reduction of tuberculosis (TB) deaths in people living with HIV
- Ensure no children are born with HIV and reduction of AIDS-related maternal deaths
- 15x15 (15 million people on antiretroviral treatment by 2015)
- Mobilise funding (US$22–24 billion per year)
- 55 Operative Paragraphs in the Political Declaration
Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (2006)
At the 2006 High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York, USA, governments committed themselves in the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS. Rather than setting new global targets, the Declaration called on all countries to set ambitious national targets on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by the end of 2006 that reflect their commitment to move towards the goal of universal access by 2010.
Heads of State from across Africa met in Abuja, Nigeria, in May 2001 to agree on an action framework for AIDS, TB and a number of other related diseases. The summit, which heard from civil society organisations including people living with HIV, agreed an ambitious Declaration and Plan of Action. The 'Abuja Declaration' as it is commonly referred to, outlined a number of time-specific goals and targets to tackle HIV and AIDS – including financial commitments from national budgets – with the first set of targets to be reached in 2006.
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS (2001)
Later in 2001, Member States gathered for the first-ever United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, unanimously embracing a series of time-bound targets in the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. Many of these built on the goals and targets of the Abuja Declaration. The Declaration of Commitment covers 10 priorities, from prevention to treatment to funding. It was designed as a blueprint to meet Millennium Development Goal 6 to halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV by 2015.
In 2006, a Special Summit was held in Brazzaville, Congo, to review the status of the implementation of the Declarations and Frameworks for Action that came out of the 2000 Summit on Roll Back Malaria and the 2001 Summit on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other Related Infectious Diseases, both held in Abuja, Nigeria. The Summit issued the Brazzaville Commitment on Scaling up Towards Universal Access to HIV and AIDS Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support in Africa by 2010. The document identifies the major obstacles to the rapid and integrated implementation of existing national HIV programmes and services and makes recommendations to overcome hurdles to universal access.
A Compendium of African Union and International Committments on HIV and AIDS
A compendium of continental and global commitments on HIV and AIDS by African leaders, civil society and development partners. Published by the African Union Commission in collaboration with UNAIDS.