Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet; UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé; Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson, African Union Commission; and Peter Piot, Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director; Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson, African Union Commission; Peter Piot; Marijke Wijnroks, Chief of Staff, Global Fund; and UNAIDS staff. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

UNAIDS and Lancet Commission report launch. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

UNAIDS and Lancet Commission report launch. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

UNAIDS and Lancet Commission report launch. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson, African Union Commission. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

“It’s imperative that donors and providers work together to create a viable and efficient business plan to ensure we can test, treat and maintain HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention for all people, in all countries around the world.”—Nancy Mahon, SVP of Global Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship for The Estée Lauder Companies, and Global Director of the M•A•C AIDS Fund. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

"Science has made remarkable contributions in the global HIV epidemic, among them impressive global progress towards the elimination of HIV in new-born babies. To defeat AIDS, we need to re-double our research efforts to create new and better prevention and treatment methods, strategies for sustainable implementation and, eventually a cure.”—Salim S. Abdool Karim, Chair of the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel and a co-author of the report. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

Cristina Jade Peña, Ambassador, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, commissioner. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

"The Lancet AIDS Commission Report highlights a series of new options that could dramatically cut the number of new HIV infections and change the course of the epidemic over the next decade and a half. It illustrates the concrete ways for funds to be raised to pay for high-impact strategies, in which badly affected low- and middle-income countries take on an increased financial responsibility while donors continue to support these burgeoning home-grown efforts."—Robert Hecht, Managing Director at the Results for Development Institute and one of the authors of the report. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

Pascal Lamy, former European Commissioner and former Director-General, World Trade Organization; Martin Dinham, Chair of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, a member of STOP AIDS; Paul Hunt, former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health and Rapporteur of UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; and Helena Legido-Quigley, associate professor, Sae Swee Hock School of Public Health, national university of Singapore. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

Pascal Lamy, former European Commissioner and former Director-General, World Trade Organization. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

Annie Lennox and EXD Michel Sidibé. London, United Kingdom, 25 June 2015. Credit: UNAIDS/RowanGeorgeFarrell

The Lancet's prestigious heritage as one of the world's leading medical journals continues to inspire its authors and editors today as they strive for medical excellence in all that they publish.