Joint United Nations Programme on Hiv/Aids

E/RES/2025/20View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A document of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 13h Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, published in 2025.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 2011–2025

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

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 2	A comprehensive and balanced approach to counter the world drug problem	28

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 2	A comprehensive and balanced approach to counter the world drug problem	28	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

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

What’s in this document?

25 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 new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are not declining in line with the trajectory needed to achieve the 2030 targets outlined in the 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending Inequalities and Getting on Track to End AIDS by 2030, and stresses the need to act with urgency to meet the 2030 targets, as a prerequisite for ending the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat 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, in line with its mandate, encourages Governments, civil society, community-led organizations engaged in the HIV response, the private sector and other relevant stakeholders 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, and looks forward to the ongoing development of the Global AIDS Strategy 2026–2031;

Calls for urgent action and partnership by Member States, the United Nations system, civil society, community-led organizations engaged in the HIV response, 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 continue to increase domestic funding and implement differentiated approaches to reaching people with HIV prevention services, taking into account the national context, through a comprehensive prevention package for all and tailored packages, including affordable long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis, 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;

Also urges Member States to continue to develop HIV sustainability road maps, including with the support of the Joint Programme;

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, advocacy for increased investments in early testing and optimal treatment for children and adolescents, promoting the prevention of new HIV infections and closing the treatment gap during pregnancy and breastfeeding, supporting national and global efforts towards the elimination of vertical transmission of HIV and advancing gender equality, and, within its mandate, to support countries in fulfilling their obligations under international human rights law to advance human rights and fundamental freedoms and addressing social, economic and structural barriers to effective HIV responses;

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, community-led organizations, the private sector and other relevant stakeholders to coordinate efforts between HIV and other health programmes and sectors, with a particular focus on integration within health and social protection systems and prevention innovation as part of the sustainability of the HIV response, while also ensuring accountability for access to treatment and supporting processes that facilitate integration;

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;

Encourages the Joint Programme to urgently implement mitigation measures in the current financial crisis to be able 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;

Recalls the Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property and World Health Assembly resolution 61.21 of 24 May 2008,⁶ that urges Member States to support actively the wide implementation of the Global Strategy and Plan of Action and that calls upon relevant international organizations and other relevant stakeholders to give priority within their respective mandates and programmes to implementing the Global Strategy and Plan of Action, and requests Member States to take into account the recommendations of the expert review panel,⁷ consistent with the Global Strategy and Plan of Action, in line with national priorities;

⁶See World Health Organization, document WHA61/2008/REC/1.

⁷Available at https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/gspa-phi3011rev.

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, and the ongoing transition of the Joint Programme within the wider United Nations system as reflected in the revised operating model;

Reaffirms that the Joint Programme’s co-sponsor and governance model continues to provide the United Nations system with a useful example of strategic coherence, inclusive governance, and country-level impact, as set out in General Assembly resolution 79/226 on the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system;

Notes the decisions taken by the Programme Coordinating Board on the revision of the operating model of the Joint Programme response, and its review by 2027, to more effectively support countries, and urges the Joint Programme to continue this process, taking into account the UN80 Initiative;

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;

Reaffirms appreciation for the continued strengthening of the Programme Coordinating Board’s oversight role within its mandate, and in particular through the work and recommendations 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;

Expresses grave alarm over the acute funding crisis for the HIV response, including for the work of the Joint Programme, and the failure to achieve the commitment set out in the 2021 Political Declaration to enhance global solidarity and increase annual HIV investments in developing countries to 29 billion United States dollars by 2025, and calls for urgent action, in the face of the greatest systemic shock and disruption of HIV programmes in the history of the global HIV response, for continued global solidarity to end AIDS as a public health threat and in contribution to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal target 3.3;

Calls for a Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework, which is to be updated in accordance with the revised operating model, to be fully resourced, and for renewed efforts to protect the ability of the Joint Programme to continue to maintain the level of ambition of the Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework;

Calls upon long-standing donors to maintain, and if possible, renew and increase their contributions to the Joint Programme, welcomes contributions from developing and developed countries, and invites new donors, 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;⁸

⁸Available at https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/PCB51_Bureau_Report_ UNAIDS_Funding_Final_041222.pdf.

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 eightieth session of the Assembly, as decided by the Assembly in accordance with its resolution 75/284 of 8 June 2021, to review progress on the commitments made in the 2021 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, including target 3.3;

Renews its request to the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Council on the performance expectations for the position of Executive Director of the Joint Programme by June 2026, reflecting the discussions by the Programme Coordinating Board in December 2023, in line with the best practices of the United Nations system and as recommended by the Joint Inspection Unit;

Encourages the Secretary-General to promptly engage in dialogue on establishing two 4-year term limits for the position of Executive Director of the Joint Programme, in line with the best practices of the United Nations system and as recommended by the Joint Inspection Unit;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Council, at its 2027 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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