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High Level Meeting (HLM) 2011 Dawn Foderingham Regional Progamme Advisor UN AIDS Regional Support Team. United Nations General Assembly Special Session ( UNGASS ) 2001. Declaration of Commitment
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High Level Meeting (HLM) 2011 Dawn Foderingham Regional Progamme Advisor UNAIDS Regional Support Team
United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) 2001 • Declaration of Commitment • Member States/Governments made a series of time-bound commitments to expand efforts to address HIV • Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) 2006 • Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS • Governments made historic commitment at the United Nations to scale up dramatically the AIDS response • Countries committed to provide Universal Access (UA) to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services to all those in need by 2010
Universal Access (UA) in 2010 • Universal Access remains a fundamental priority • Call for UA review, building on UNGASS country data to: • Analyse UA achievements to date • What is required to achieve the targets set • ‘Know your epidemic and know your response’ - analyse data about who becomes infected and how those populations have changed • Define strategies to accelerate progress
UA Country Reviews UNAIDS supported UA Reviews in 117 countries • Notable progress achieved in mother-to-child transmission and provision of ARVs • Insufficient progress in social determinants of HIV vulnerability – Stigma/Gender/Punitive laws/KAPs
Towards UN General Assembly 8 – 10 June 2011 • United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting (HLM) on AIDS • Review the 2001 and 2006 Declarations • Redouble commitment to the AIDS Response • UNGASS + 10 years and Universal Access + 5 years
UA Regional Reviews 2011 UNAIDS supports UA Regional Reviews • Six Regional Consultations • 2 Sub Regional Consultations (WCA/ESA) • UA Stock-taking report produced by UNAIDS • UA report contributes to Secretary General’s Progress Report to UN General Assembly
Steps towards UN General Assembly June 2011 • Regional Hearings of Global Commission on HIV and the Law • Civil Society Hearing 8 April 2011 • Global Youth Summit Bamako, Mali. 27 April 2011 (tbc) • High Level Meeting June 2011
Engagement of Young People in key events 2011 UNAIDS theme:- New Generation Leadership Outcomedocument AU Summit on Youth & Devt., July (Selected YP from the Africa region who participated in the below events) Civil Society Task Force (Ajay Kumar Uprety, GYCA, Nepal has been selected to represent youth networks; to be linked with the UA and Mali Youth Summit) Outcome document High Level Meeting, June (Selected YP who participated in Mali & commission meeting) Prevention Commission, May (Selected YP who participated in Mali) Global Youth Summit, Mali, April (100 young people including YP from the UA consultations) Call for action AU African Youth Forum, April (YP from the Africa regions) Civil Society hearing, April (YP from regions and global) Young People to contribute and influence the outcome document for the HLM Regional UA Consultations (1 to 2 young people from each regions) Countries Countries Countries
UN General Assembly 8 – 10 June 2011 • United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting (HLM) on AIDS • Review the 2001 and 2006 Declarations • Secretary General’s Progress Report • UNGASS + 10 years and Universal Access + 5 years
Success at HLM A Declaration that: • Reaffirms Global commitment to support the AIDS response and Universal Access • Identifies opportunities, addresses bottlenecks and barriers that hinder accountability and progress toward universal access • Provides a new framework for sustained and integrated AIDS responses with revised targets
Success at HLM A Declaration that: • Promotes shared accountability through country ownership, strengthened civil society leadership and locally driven priority- setting . • Outlines mechanisms for monitoring of progress and global reporting to the UNGA • Establishes a demonstrable commitment by the international community to the vision of “Zero new HIV infections, Zero discrimination, Zero AIDS-related Deaths