Joint United Nations Programme on Hiv/Aids

E/RES/2021/26View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 12h Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, published in 2021.

What other versions does this mandate have?

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?

4 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Hiv/Aids Hiv/Aids Prevention Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

21 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the report of the Programme Coordinating Board of the Joint Programme to the Economic and Social Council;

Recognizes that the AIDS epidemic is not yet over, and stresses the need to act with urgency to meet the 2025 milestones and targets, as a prerequisite for ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030;

Calls upon the Joint Programme to support the effective, evidence-based, timely and multisectoral implementation of the Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026, “End Inequalities, End AIDS” and the 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending Inequalities and Getting on Track to End AIDS by 2030, in line with its mandate, and encourages Governments, civil society, local communities and the private sector to achieve the goals of the 2021–2026 Strategy and the 2021 Political Declaration, taking into consideration national policies and priorities, as an important enabler for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, including target 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 services, including access to safe, effective, quality and affordable medicines, including generics, to ensure that those services reach the people who need them the most, including adolescent girls and young women as well as key populations that epidemiological evidence shows to be globally at higher risk of HIV infection, and children living with HIV, who have poorer HIV treatment coverage than adults and comprise a higher relative proportion of AIDS-related deaths;

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 reinvigorated efforts to protect human rights and promote gender equality in the context of HIV and to address social risk factors, including gender-based violence and domestic violence, including intimate partner violence, which can be understood differently in different contexts, as well as social and economic determinants of health, with the aim of reducing health inequities within and among countries;

Also 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 comorbidities, including tuberculosis, cervical cancer and mental health conditions, to promote improved health outcomes in the context of moving towards achieving universal health coverage by 2030;

Urges the Joint Programme to work collaboratively with Member States, civil society and communities, in a transparent, inclusive and consultative manner, ensuring active participation of all relevant stakeholders in its activities;

Calls for strengthened coordination and collaboration between tuberculosis and HIV programmes to promote universal and equitable access to integrated services related to HIV and tuberculosis by 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, and calls for HIV and tuberculosis programmes to actively contribute to national antimicrobial resistance strategies;

Also calls for stepped-up efforts by Member States, the United Nations system, civil society, communities, the private sector and relevant stakeholders to ensure uninterrupted access to people-centred HIV services and social protection during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to build back better in a more equitable and inclusive manner from the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the global AIDS epidemic, including by providing equitable access to vaccines;

Requests the Joint Programme to continue to support and contribute to the follow-up and review process of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 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;

Recalls the Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, adopted by the World Health Assembly,⁷ and urges Member States, the relevant international organizations and other relevant stakeholders to actively support its wide implementation, taking into account the recommendations of the expert review panel that were consistent with the Global Strategy and Plan of Action;

⁷See World Health Organization, document WHA61/2008/REC/1.

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

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 75/233 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 its operating model and strengthen its Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework 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;

Encourages the Joint Programme to continue facilitating and supporting the participation of the Programme Coordinating Board NGO Delegation in the work of the Programme Coordinating Board as set out in the Modus Operandi of the Board and Council resolution 1995/2;

Expresses appreciation for the initiative of the Programme Coordinating Board to continue to update and fulfil the oversight role of the Board within its mandate, including by approving annex 4 to its Modus Operandi that clarifies its oversight and accountability roles and by establishing an independent external oversight advisory committee aligned with the evolution of the HIV epidemic, with the work of the Joint Programme and with best practices of the United Nations system, in order to have an effective, efficient and accountable Joint Programme;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report, after consultation with the Programme Coordinating Board, on the establishment of two four-year term limits and performance expectations for the position of Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, in line with the practices of the United Nations system and as recommended by the Joint Inspection Unit;

Calls for urgent action to close the HIV and AIDS resource gap, taking into account the need for annual investments of 29 billion United States dollars in order to reach the 2025 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, while encouraging all donors to prioritize flexible and multi-annual contributions;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Council, at its 2023 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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