UNAIDS and Global Fund sign recent strategic framework for cooperation to finish AIDS – press releases

UNAIDS and Global Fund sign recent strategic framework for cooperation to finish AIDS

June 24, 2024

– UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima and Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), Peter Sands, signed a brand new Strategic Framework for Cooperation and Collaboration to End AIDS (2024-2028). The agreement renews the organization’s long-standing partnership and aligns ongoing cooperation with the newest UN General Assembly Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Eliminate inequalities and take motion to eliminate AIDS by 2030.

“The long-standing partnership between UNAIDS and the Global Fund has played a key role in supporting many millions of people living with or vulnerable to HIV to enjoy better health and well-being through improved access to essential services,” said Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS . “At UNAIDS, we are excited to continue working with the Global Fund towards our shared goal of ending AIDS.”

The recent strategic framework puts people and communities at the middle and goals to unite countries, communities and partners within the HIV response and beyond to take priority actions to speed up progress towards a vision of zero recent HIV infections, zero discrimination and 0 AIDS-related deaths.

“Our close cooperation, especially at the national level, is vital in the fight against AIDS,” said Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund. “Our counterparts at UNAIDS play a key role on the ground: helping to put communities living with and affected by HIV at the center of action and ensuring the widespread adoption of a rights-based approach.”

Global Fund Strategy (2023-2028) Fighting the pandemic and constructing a healthier and more just world [ download in عربي | English | Español | Français | Português | Русский ] is fully consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals and the UNAIDS initiative Global AIDS Strategy (2021-2026) End Inequalities, End AIDS, which guides the worldwide response to AIDS. It calls on all actors to extend and sustain global and domestic investments to realize the ambitious goals and commitments set out within the 2025 Strategy and to set the world on a course to finish AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

Cooperation under the brand new agreement will concentrate on reducing the inequalities that cause the AIDS epidemic and on eliminating gaps in HIV prevention and treatment that prevent progress in eliminating AIDS. Priority may even be given to individuals who don’t yet have access to lifesaving HIV services.

The common approach supports a renewed concentrate on primary prevention, addressing structural drivers of HIV infection and AIDS-related deaths, and tackling inequalities and barriers to access to human rights and gender services, including stigma, discrimination and criminalization. It uses recent HIV prevention and treatment methods, precision public health approaches, and supports synergies between HIV services and related health areas. Additionally, the framework continues to offer long-term support to strengthen countries’ capability to measure the epidemic and monitor the response, and act on data to realize results. Countries may even be encouraged to discover the long-term sustainability of the HIV response through stronger health systems, higher integrated HIV treatment services and improved donor contributions.