Joint United Nations Programme on Hiv/Aids

E/RES/2023/30View 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 2023.

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?

24 operative paragraphs

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

Recognizes that the global 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 further 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 strengthen the HIV response, in accordance with national policies and priorities, to accelerate progress towards the goals of the 2021–2026 Strategy and the 2021 Political Declaration, 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 relevant stakeholders to scale up evidence-based HIV prevention, testing, treatment, care and retention services, including access to safe, effective, quality and free or 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 implement differentiated approaches to reaching people with HIV prevention services, through a comprehensive prevention package for all and tailored packages for the most at-risk populations, along with accelerated actions to address policy and structural barriers faced by adolescent girls and young women and key populations that hinder the scale-up of prevention services, encouraging members of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition to accelerate implementation of the HIV Prevention 2025 Road Map;

Encourages the Joint Programme to continue work to advance progress to end paediatric AIDS, including work with the countries of the Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children to bolster investments in early testing and optimal treatment for infants, children and adolescents; closing the treatment gap for pregnant and breastfeeding women; preventing new infections among pregnant and breastfeeding adolescent girls and young women; and addressing rights, gender equality and social, economic and structural barriers that hinder access;

Urges Member States to urgently remove, where feasible, obstacles that limit the capacity of developing 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, such as insufficient protection of sexual and reproductive health as well as social and economic determinants of health, with the aim of reducing health inequities within and between 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 contribute, where appropriate, to approaches to HIV drug resistance in national antimicrobial resistance strategies or responses;

Encourages the Joint Programme to sustain its efforts in engaging and collaborating on global health priorities in accordance with its mandate, and emphasizes the importance of drawing lessons from the multisectoral approach to HIV to tackle other global health challenges while ensuring that equity remains a central principle;

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 continued strengthening of the Programme Coordinating Board’s oversight role within its mandate, and in particular the establishment and work of the Independent External Oversight Advisory Committee of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, established in 2022 following the recommendations of the 2019 Joint Inspection Unit review of the management and administration of the Joint Programme;

Calls for urgent action to close the HIV and AIDS resource gap, taking into account the need for additional annual investments of 8 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;

Also calls for a fully funded Unified Budget Results and Accountability Framework and for renewed efforts to close the continuous and increasing funding gap which has severely compromised the ability of the Joint Programme to continue to maintain the level of ambition of the Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework;

Calls 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 consider multiannual core Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework funding and more flexible non-core funding, and calls upon Member States to seriously consider the recommendations of the informal multi-stakeholder task team of the Programme Coordinating Board on the funding situation of the Joint Programme;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Economic and Social Council, before its 2025 session, after consultation with the Programme Coordinating Board at its fifty-third meeting in December 2023, a report on the follow-up to Council resolution 2021/26 on the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS regarding the establishment of term limits and performance expectations for the position of the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Council, at its 2025 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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