Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), briefs the press on the General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS with co-facilitators Neville Gertze, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Namibia to the United Nations; and Mitch Fifield, Australia’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and Yana Panfilova, a person openly living with HIV and member of GNP+ Global Network of People Living with HIV.
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Australia has played a key role in reinvigorating the global AIDS response, helping achieve a new global commitment on the way forward.
Australia and Namibia co-facilitated the Political Declaration adopted at the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting (HLM) on HIV/AIDS, which sets ambitious targets to guide the global AIDS response for the next five years.
The Political Declaration commits member states to addressing the inequalities driving the AIDS epidemic and the stigma and discrimination faced by people at risk of, living with or affected by HIV.
Australia is also investing AUD11.65 million to increase the availability and uptake of HIV testing and prevention services amongst key populations in the Indo-Pacific.