The High-Level Meeting on AIDS will take place between 8 and 10 June 2021. The high-level meeting will review the progress made in reducing the impact of HIV since the last United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS in 2016 and the General Assembly expects to adopt a new political declaration to guide the future direction of the response.
The 2021 high-level meeting will be the springboard for a decade of action to reduce inequalities and root out the social determinants that fuel the HIV epidemic. The high-level meeting comes at a historic moment for the AIDS response, 40 years after the emergence of the first cases of HIV and 25 years since the creation of UNAIDS. UNAIDS encourages the highest level of governmental participation in the 2021 high-level meeting and the full engagement of civil society and all other stakeholders through all channels, as agreed in the modalities of the high-level meeting.
Provisional programme of the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS
Civil Society Declaration for the United Nations General Assembly 2021 High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS
Now more than ever, evidence-based responses and renewed political will are called for –especially in face of the additional burdens imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to focus efforts and resources where they are most needed, we call for a Political Declaration that:
- RECOGNIZES explicitly who is most at risk of HIV
- ACKNOWLEDGES why this is so
- COMMITS to fully fund and support effective responses
- HOLDS ACCOUNTABLE Member States for their actions
Special-accreditation for the 2021 UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS
In accordance with General Assembly resolution 75/260 , representatives of non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council* and non-governmental members of the Programme Coordinating Board of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS** will be invited to participate in the high-level meeting, as appropriate.
The application for special-accreditation is now open until 25 April 2021.
HIV/AIDS Interactive Multi-Stakeholder Hearing (23 April 2021)
The General Assembly requested the President of the General Assembly to organize and preside over an interactive multi-stakeholder hearing as part of the preparatory process for the HLM.
The hearing took place on Friday, 23 April 2021
Watch the highlights of the hearing
Watch video recording on Facebook
Summary report from the multistakeholder hearing
UNAIDS welcomes the United Nations General Assembly decision to hold a high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS in 2021
GENEVA, 25 February 2021—UNAIDS welcomes the United Nations General Assembly decision for a high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS to take place between 8 and 10 June 2021. The high-level meeting will review the progress made in reducing the impact of HIV since the last United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS in 2016 and the General Assembly expects to adopt a new political declaration to guide the future direction of the response. The high-level meeting will take place as the world marks 40 years since the first case of AIDS was reported and 25 years of UNAIDS.
“World leaders must seize the opportunity offered by this new United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS to maintain their focus and commitment on ending AIDS as a public health threat as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” said Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS Executive Director. “The AIDS epidemic is unfinished business and must be ended for everyone everywhere, including for young women and adolescent girls and for other groups of people disproportionately affected by HIV. The right to health belongs to all of us.”
