Overview - UNAIDS 2016-2021 Strategy

Updating and extending the UNAIDS Strategy

Inspired by the unprecedented progress made over the past several years, the international AIDS community, including the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB), has embraced the ambition of ending the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. To get there, the PCB has requested that the UNAIDS 2011–2015 Strategy be updated and extended for the 2016–2021 period to guide progress towards several ambitious Fast-Track Targets.

Fast-Tracking the response will rely on front-loading investments and accelerating rights-based action in the coming years while accounting for a rapidly shifting geopolitical context and evolving HIV epidemic. It will also mean fundamentally changing the way the response supports the populations that continue to be left behind—as explored in depth in the UNAIDS Gap report.

Quickening the pace over the next six years is pivotal to global prospects for bringing the AIDS epidemic to an end. Continuing at the current pace will mean continuing to leave people behind, exacerbating inequalities, unsustainably increasing costs and compromising social justice. An ambitious global strategy is required to take us forward—one that mobilizes political commitment, focuses resources and accelerates progress.

An inclusive, multistakeholder consultation process

The UNAIDS 2016–2021 Strategy, as well as the Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF), will be developed through an inclusive process. The process will include multistakeholder consultations at the regional and global levels, in-person and online. Interested stakeholders will have several opportunities to influence the Strategy and the UBRAF through the course of their development.

Global consultation

A global multistakeholder consultation will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, at UNAIDS headquarters on 22 and 23 April. It will review inputs from regional and virtual consultations and make recommendations on updating and extending the UNAIDS Strategy.

A second global multistakeholder consultation will be held at UNAIDS headquarters on 3 July to discuss the UNAIDS 2016–2021 UBRAF.

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