The below maps the process between the UNAIDS Secretariat and Cosponsors, the UNAIDS Advisory Group and its working groups and the PCB. It is important to note that the strategy review and development will also be informed by other efforts, such as the 2025 target-setting and resource needs estimates, the evaluation of the United Nations system response, the Global Prevention Coalition, the Global AIDS Monitoring process and the Human Rights Reference Group. Other internal Secretariat work around the Management Action Plan and the response to the Joint Inspection Unit report will also be referenced.

We are committed to ensuring that the next strategy produces programmes and responses that work for the people who are currently unreached and left behind. As such, the global strategy review and development process must:

• Be inclusive, participatory, interactive, multisectoral and multilevel in order to fully inspire inputs from everyone, particularly those whose voices are not often heard owing to stigma, marginalization and exclusion.
• Be self-reflective and explore the successes, challenges and failures in the AIDS response and be reflective of the global health, human rights and development context beyond HIV.
• Be innovative in how to explore partnerships and synergies with other health and development responses, while remaining focused on reaching the goal of ending AIDS by 2030 despite a challenging context.

As such, the stakeholder engagement process needs to ensure that:

• We engage all communities meaningfully throughout the process. As much as we can, we commit to engage community members who are part of networks or organizations that represent their constituency, to ensure that we learn from the collective experience of those communities, but, moreover, to ensure the discussions in the strategy development consultations can be transmitted and shared with their peers and can affect action.
• We hear from voices across all levels of the AIDS response, from the global level to the regional, national and local levels, where the communities we aim to reach access services, capturing the depth and breadth of positions and perspectives.
• We recognize the barriers for the populations left behind to engage in political processes, and that their participation is necessary in order to develop an effective global AIDS strategy that upholds and protects human rights.
• We commit to hear from communities that are marginalized and excluded, for example sex workers, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, people who use drugs, people on the move, people with disabilities and other fragile communities.

There will be dialogue among diverse stakeholders to review:

• The path from the beginning of the epidemic, celebrating and learning from successes but also recognizing and learning from challenges and failures.
• The current global health, societal and development context, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact.
• The strategic directions that the AIDS response can take to reach its goals and be situated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
• The principles, results and areas of action needed to deliver on the strategy’s strategic directions.

In selecting stakeholders for participation in all strategy consultation processes, the following criteria will be used:

• Ensuring geographic balance.
• Reach (global, regional, national and local).
• Diversity of communities, with an effort to reach the communities left behind (e.g. people living with HIV, key populations, women, young people).
• Gender equality.
• Areas of expertise (e.g. health, human rights, development, economics).
• Key partners in the AIDS response and key stakeholders in health and development.