Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating
the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030
A/RES/70/266
2.
Reaffirm the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS 2 and the 2006
and 2011 political declarations on HIV and AIDS, 3 and the urgent need to scale up
significantly our efforts towards the goal of universal access to comprehensive
prevention programmes, treatment, care and support;
3.
Reaffirm the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the resolve
of Member States to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, and the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development; 4
4.
Reaffirm the sovereign rights of Member States, as enshrined in the Charter of
the United Nations, and the need for all countries to implement the commitments
and pledges in the present Declaration consistent with national laws, national
development priorities and international human rights;
5.
Reaffirm the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 5 the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 6 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 6 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 7 and
the outcomes of its reviews, the outcome documents of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly, 8 the Programme of Action of the International
Conference on Population and Development, 9 the key actions for its further
implementation 10 and the outcomes of its reviews, and note the outcome documents
of the regional review conferences, stressing that the outcome documents of the
regional review conferences provide region-specific guidance on population and
development beyond 2014 for each region that adopted the particu lar outcome
document, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 11 the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 12 the outcome
document of the thirtieth special session of the General Assembly on the world drug
problem, 13 the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women 14 and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; 15
6.
Recall Economic and Social Council resolution 2015/2 of 8 April 2015 on the
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, in which the Council reaffirmed the
value of the lessons learned from the global AIDS response for the post -2015
development agenda, Security Council resolution 1983 (2011) of 7 June 2011 on the
impact of the HIV epidemic in conflict and post-conflict situations, Commission on
the Status of Women resolution 60/2 of 24 March 2016 on women, the girl child and
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2
Resolution S-26/2, annex.
Resolution 60/262, annex, and resolution 65/277, annex.
4
Resolution 69/313, annex.
5
Resolution 217 A (III).
6
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
7
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
8
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
9
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
10
Resolution S-21/2, annex.
11
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
12
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
13
Resolution S-30/1, annex.
14
Resolution 48/104.
15
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.
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