The 36th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 30 June to 2 July.
During the opening session, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé addressed the Board giving an update of the progress made in the AIDS response as well as outlining the challenges and opportunities ahead to Fast-Track a global movement to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Mr Sidibé said the response to HIV over the next five years would determine what happens over the next 15 years. “The next five years provide a fragile window of opportunity to Fast-Track our response and end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030,” he said.
The thematic segment of the meeting will take place on the last day of the meeting and will focus on HIV in emergency contexts.
The 36th meeting of the UNAIDS Board is being chaired by Zimbabwe, with Switzerland acting as Vice-Chair and Ukraine as rapporteur.
