From AIDS to sustainable health

Towards a new global development agenda

As the world seeks to define a new development agenda and accountability framework, the opportunity must be seized to protect the achievements of the AIDS response on our journey towards the end of AIDS, and to usher in a new era of social justice, health and sustainable development.

The Commission

To bring this debate to the global arena, the UNAIDS and The Lancet Commission: From AIDS to Sustainable Health has been established. Through a dynamic programme of think-tank consultations, together with online crowd-sourcing and direct engagement with constituencies, the Commission will deliberate on strategies to ensure that the vision of the global AIDS movement, zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths, can be realised in the coming decades. The Commission also seeks to ensure that the principles and achievements of the AIDS response inform a more equitable, effective and sustainable global health agenda.

The first meeting of the Commission will be held in Lilongwe, Malawi on 28-29 June, 2013.

Co-Chairs

• H.E. Joyce Banda, President of Malawi
• Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chair of the African Union Commission
• Professor Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Three central questions

The Commission will deliberate on the following three questions:

• What will it take to bring about the end of AIDS?
• How can the experience of the AIDS response serve as a transformative force in our approach to global health?
• If we imagine a more equitable, effective and sustainable global health paradigm, how must the national and global AIDS architecture be similarly modernised?

Outcomes of the Commission

• Evidence. A Special report of The Lancet as well as on-going coverage in The Lancet of interim findings.
• Awareness. Greater awareness among key opinion leaders of the contributions of the response to broader global health outcomes and sustainable development, and the rationale for a prominent positioning of HIV in the post-2015 agenda and accountability framework.
• Mobilisation. Higher level of commitment to action on the part of individuals, civil society, businesses, institutes, and governments and momentum for a transformation in global health through public dialogue and political mobilisation.