Joint United Nations Programme on Hiv/Aids

E/RES/2019/33View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 12g Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, published in 2019.

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8 versions · 2011–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is E/RES/2025/20

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	E/RES/2025/20	Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS	2,899	52%Compare
2023	E/RES/2023/30	Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS	2,936	59%Compare
2021	E/RES/2021/26	Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS	2,566	42%Compare
2019	E/RES/2019/33	Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS	2,157	31%Compare
2017	E/RES/2017/25	Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS	1,313	31%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Development Strategies Hiv/Aids Prevention Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS;1

Recognizes that the AIDS epidemic is not yet over, and stresses the ongoing need to invigorate the AIDS response to increase momentum towards meeting the 2020 targets in countries where results are lagging, while recognizing the need to support sustaining the successes in controlling the pandemic and ensuring the end of the epidemic by 2030, and establishing a foundation for the long-term sustainability of the response;

Urges the Joint Programme to continue to support the full, effective and timely implementation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 2016–2021 Strategy: On the Fast Track to End AIDS and the 2016 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030,2 and encourages Governments, civil society, local communities and the private sector to achieve the goals of the 2016–2021 Strategy and the 2016 Political Declaration, as an important prerequisite and enabler for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, including target 3.3;3

Calls for urgent action and partnership by Member States, the United Nations system, civil society, local communities, the private sector and other stakeholders to scale up evidence-based HIV prevention, testing, treatment, care and retention, including access to safe, effective, quality and affordable medicines, including generics, viral load testing in pursuit of achieving viral load suppression, and tuberculosis preventative treatment, to ensure that those services reach the people who need them the most, including key populations4 that epidemiological evidence shows to be globally at higher risk of HIV infection, adolescent girls and young women, and calls for reinvigorated efforts to protect human rights and promote gender equality and to address social risk factors, including gender-based violence, as well as social and economic determinants of health;

Urges Member States to urgently remove, where feasible, obstacles that limit the capacity of low- and middle-income countries to provide affordable and effective HIV prevention and treatment products, diagnostics, medicines and commodities and other pharmaceutical products;

Calls for strengthened efforts by Member States, the United Nations system, civil society, local communities, the private sector and other stakeholders to coordinate efforts between HIV and other health programmes and sectors, with a particular focus on integration within health systems, to increase efficiency and contribute to long-term sustainability, and services to address co-infections and co-morbidities, to promote improved health outcomes in the context of moving towards achieving universal health coverage by 2030;

Also calls for strengthened coordination and collaboration between tuberculosis and HIV programmes, as well as with other health programmes and sectors, to find the missing cases of tuberculosis and HIV through ensuring universal and equitable access to integrated prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care services, through public, private and community providers, in accordance with national legislation, including through promoting testing and treatment for HIV among people with tuberculosis and screening all people living with HIV regularly for tuberculosis and providing tuberculosis treatment or prevention, as indicated;

Urges the Joint Programme to continue to leverage the comparative advantages of diverse United Nations bodies and other partners in fast-tracking and strengthening a multisectoral response to AIDS in line with their respective mandates;

Recognizes that the Sustainable Development Goals provide for the elimination of discriminatory laws, policies and practices, which will be important to reduce barriers to an effective HIV response, including for vulnerable and key populations that epidemiological evidence shows to be globally at higher risk of HIV infection;

Reaffirms that the Joint Programme’s co-sponsor and governance model provides the United Nations system with a useful example of strategic coherence, reflecting national contexts and priorities, through its coordination, results-based focus, inclusive governance, and country-level impact, as set out in General Assembly resolution 71/243 of 21 December 2016 on the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system;

Welcomes the efforts of the Joint Programme to refine and adapt its operating model to more effectively support countries, and urges the Joint Programme to continue these efforts and its active engagement in United Nations reform efforts at the national, regional and global levels, and, specifically, at the country level to position the AIDS response as an integral part of sustainable development cooperation between the United Nations country teams and the host Governments and country stakeholders to achieve the AIDS-related commitments, in accordance with national contexts and priorities, and the broader Sustainable Development Goals, and to ensure that no one is left behind;

Requests the Programme Coordinating Board to discuss governance issues of the Joint Programme, as well as how the Joint Programme could be sustainably core funded, in accordance with all relevant United Nations principles, with a view to evaluating such issues, in order to have an effective, efficient and accountable Joint Programme, and to report to the Economic and Social Council by 2021;

Recognizes the efforts of the Joint Programme to support and contribute to the follow-up and review process of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,3 including the high-level political forum on sustainable development, in order to ensure that adequate consideration is given to the HIV/AIDS response and its interlinkages with other Sustainable Development Goals;

Stresses the critical importance of continued political commitment and leadership to end AIDS by 2030, and recognizes the need to convene a high-level meeting of the General Assembly, the date of which is to be determined no later than at the seventy-fifth session of the Assembly, as decided by the Assembly in accordance with its resolution 70/266 of 8 June 2016, to review progress on the commitments made in the 2016 Political Declaration and reinvigorate the response in order to regain momentum and place the world back on track to achieve the end of AIDS by 2030, in close alignment and synergy with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Calls for urgent action to close the HIV and AIDS resource gap, taking into account the need for annual investments of 26 billion United States dollars in order to reach the 2020 targets, in line with the principles of shared responsibility and global solidarity, encourages countries to scale up domestic and international funding for the response, and emphasizes that action is needed to ensure political, programmatic and financial accountability and sustainability at all levels;

Stresses the importance of a fully funded Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework for the effective functioning of the Joint Programme, and calls for renewed efforts to close the current funding gap, including by calling upon existing donors to maintain and step up their contributions, and inviting new donors to join from both the public and private sectors;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Council, at its 2021 session, a report prepared by the Executive Director of the Joint Programme in collaboration with its co-sponsors and other relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, on progress made in implementing a coordinated response by the United Nations system to the HIV and AIDS epidemic.

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