"The new Global AIDS Strategy (2021–2026) seeks to reduce the inequalities
that drive the AIDS epidemic and put people at the centre to get the
world on-track to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Decades of
experience and evidence from the HIV response show that intersecting
inequalities are preventing progress towards ending AIDS.3
Developed by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)4
and adopted by the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB),5
this Strategy lays out a framework for transformative action to reduce
these inequalities by 2025 and to get every country and every community
on-track to end AIDS by 2030.6 The Strategy uses an inequalities lens to
identify, reduce and end inequalities that represent barriers to people living
with and affected by HIV, countries and communities from ending AIDS.
The Strategy is being adopted during the Decade of Action to accelerate
progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and makes
explicit contributions to advance goals and targets across the SDGs.7
The Strategy builds on an extensive review of the available evidence
and a broad-based, inclusive, consultative process in which over 10 000
stakeholders from 160 countries participated. The results from the UNAIDS
Fast-Track Strategy 2016–2021 informed the development of the new
Strategy, including the Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) decision to
develop the Global AIDS Strategy “by maintaining the critical pillars that
have delivered results in the current Fast-Track Strategy, its ambition and
the principles underpinning it to the end of 2025, but also enhance the
current Strategy to prioritize critical areas that are lagging behind and need
greater attention.”
The Strategy keeps people at the centre and aims to unite countries,
communities and partners across and beyond the HIV response to take
prioritized actions to accelerate progress towards the vision of zero new HIV
infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. The Strategy
seeks to empower people with the programmes and resources they need to
exercise their rights, protect themselves and thrive in the face of HIV." (p.7 of this document)
UNAIDS: https://www.unaids.org/en
