A/RES/70/266
United Nations
Distr.: General
22 June 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 11
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 June 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/70/L.52)]
70/266. Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track
to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the
AIDS Epidemic by 2030
The General Assembly
Adopts the political declaration on HIV and AIDS annexed to the present
resolution.
97th plenary meeting
8 June 2016
Annex
Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to
Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS
Epidemic by 2030
1.
We, Heads of State and Government and representatives of States and
Governments assembled at the United Nations from 8 to 10 June 2016, reaffirm our
commitment to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as our legacy to present and future
generations, to accelerate and scale up the fight against HIV and end AIDS to reach
this target, and to seize the new opportunities provided by the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development 1 to accelerate action and to recast our approach to AIDS
given the potential of the Sustainable Development Goals to accelerate joined -up
and sustainable efforts to lead to the end of the AIDS epidemic, and we pledge to
intensify efforts towards the goal of comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and
support programmes that will help to significantly reduce new infections, increase
life expectancy and quality of life, and promote, protect and fulfil all human rights
and the dignity of all people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV and AIDS
and their families;
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Resolution 70/1.
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