14.05.2021

Multi-Stakeholder Task Force for the 2021 High-Level Meeting on HIV and AIDS

Statement in response to zero draft 2021 political declaration
Loyce Maturu, a Zimbabwean living with AIDS since the age of 12 and an advocate for people living with HIV/AIDS, addresses the General Assembly High-level Meeting on HIV/AIDS 2016. Photo: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Aidsfonds "The Multi-Stakeholder Task Force particularly welcomes the fact that the zero draft not only recognizes explicitly who is most at risk of HIV, but also acknowledges why this is so. We equally salute the commitment to fully fund effective, human rights- and evidence-based responses, as demanded by the Civil Society Declaration for the 2021 High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS. Communities and civil society, as actors in the global AIDS response, have for decades called for human rights- and evidence-based combination prevention, treatment and care. Such programmes could have made the end of AIDS a reality by now. It is past time to take them to scale globally."