The 2026 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS will take place in New York from the 22-23 June 2026.
During the meeting, which is held every five years, all 193 UN Member States will review progress since the 2021 High-Level Meeting and will be invited to consider, negotiate and adopt a new Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS. The new Political Declaration will include new global targets aligned with the Global AIDS Strategy and recommendations from the UN Secretary General’s report on HIV/AIDS which will be released at the end of May.
See more information in the recently adopted HLM Modalities Resolution (A/Res/80/256).
A key part of the process supporting the meeting is a Multistakeholder Hearing on 14 May, organized by the President of the General Assembly with support from a Multistakeholder Task Force and facilitated by UNAIDS. The Multi-Stakeholder Hearing provides the key platform for civil society, communities and other stakeholders to share their concerns and priorities and contribute to the development of the new Political Declaration.
The 2026 High-Level Meeting is particularly significant given shifts in the global political context—including intensified pressures on multilateralism, an evolving donor landscape and game-changing, new opportunities in HIV prevention and treatment.
Ending AIDS is achievable. The world has the science, medicines and resources. What determines ultimate success is the continued ability to ensure global accountability, shared targets, trusted data and collective review of progress against HIV.
Today, UNAIDS is the UN platform that delivers that accountability.
The 2026 High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS represents a decisive political moment. Important gains have been made, but progress is uneven and increasingly under threat. Failure to sustain momentum risks reversing progress, which would cost millions of lives and significantly increase future costs for the HIV response.
At a time of growing global uncertainty, the 2026 High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS is essential to reaffirm the world’s collective commitment to ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
The President of the General Assembly (PGA) Annalena Baerbock and her office (OPGA) have the overall responsibility for the preparations and discharge of the High-Level Meeting. Consultations with Member States (e.g. on the draft modalities resolution and the draft Political Declaration) are conducted through the Co-facilitators, appointed by the PGA, the Ambassadors of Botswana and Georgia.
UNAIDS serves as the substantive secretariat for the HLM preparations, providing support to the PGA, the UN Secretary-General, Co-facilitators and Member States, including on advocacy and mobilization for the HLM and technical inputs to the deliberations.
The Modalities Resolution setting out the organizational arrangements for the HLM (dates, format, etc) was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 24 April 2026, and specifies that the HLM will be organized at the United Nations General Assembly on 22-23 June, 2026.
The Multi-Stakeholder Hearing as part of the preparatory process for the HLM is scheduled for 14 May 2026. It will be a hybrid session. (see PGA letter and Concept Note). Organizational arrangements are to be finalized by the PGA, with support of UNAIDS and in consultation with Member States, by 1 May 2026.
The Annual Report of the UN Secretary General on the progress in implementing the 2021 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS is to be issued in 6 official UN languages at the end of May and an advanced, unedited version will be informally circulated before that.
The PGA, with support of UNAIDS and in consultation with Member States, will finalize the organizational arrangements of the HLM, including the identification of themes and finalization of the panel discussions, no later than 25 May 2026.
The cofacilitators will conduct timely, open, transparent and inclusive consultations with all Member States to negotiate a new Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS—immediately after the Multi-Stakeholder Hearing, and the negotiations will likely continue up to the HLM.