World leaders in the General Assembly today committed to “urgent and transformative action” to end the gender inequalities, restrictive laws and multiple forms of discrimination that perpetuate the global AIDS epidemic, adopting a lengthy Political Declaration that spells out measures to stop the disease in its tracks by 2030.
The text — titled “Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending Inequalities and Getting on Track to End AIDS by 2030” (document A/75/L.95) — passed by a recorded vote of 165 in favour to 4 J adopted a political declaration, in which member states committed themselves to ending AIDS by 2030.
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday 08 June 2021 adopted a political declaration, in which member states committed themselves to ending AIDS by 2030.
According to the declaration, member states committed themselves to reducing annual new HIV infections to under 370,000 and annual AIDS-related deaths to under 250,000 by 2025.
They also pledged that by 2025, 95 percent of people at risk of HIV infection have access to and use appropriate, prioritized, person-centered and effective prevention options.
The UN vowed to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 by achieving 95 percent diagnosed among all people living with HIV, 95 percent on antiretroviral therapy among diagnosed, and 95 percent virally suppressed among treated.
By 2025, at least 34 million people living with HIV will have access to medicines, treatment and diagnostics, according to the declaration.
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