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We the peoples — Opening remarks by UNAIDS Executive Director at the High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS
08 June 2016
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UNAIDS Executive Director’s Report, Opening of the 38th Meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
28 June 2016
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Putting Eastern Europe and Central Asia on the Fast-Track to ending AIDS
23 March 2016
This conference is coming at a transformative moment. It is the first AIDS conference in EECA since the international community adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. In line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its focus on leaving no one behind, we should have the courage to explore all progressive policy options. I urge you to consider the following ten action points for urgent progress in the EECA region:
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Universal Health Coverage—Leaving no one behind
28 January 2016
It is timely and topical that we are here in Bangkok, at the dawn of a new era in development, for these important discussions of priority setting. Thailand should be applauded for the transformations it has achieved for the health of its people. You have demonstrated that countries can reach universal access to HIV services, and that we can dream of the day when we will end AIDS as a public health threat. HIV treatment has been fully integrated into the country’s UHC system with spectacular results: In just seven years, the number of people accessing treatment has grown from 40,000 to more than a quarter of a million.
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PCB-37 - UNAIDS Executive Director's report
28 October 2015
This 37th meeting of the PCB comes at a critical moment in our history—and for our future. It is timely that we are meeting so soon after the world adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and has collectively committed to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. When we proposed this deadline, people thought it was a dream. But thanks to your passion and leadership, the world has embraced it as an achievable goal.
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Tackling inequalities, empowering women and girls and leaving no one behind
26 September 2015
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, UNAIDS welcomes the historic adoption of ‘Transforming our world: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ - which is the result of a mighty collaborative effort across the public and private sectors and civil society.
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UNAIDS Executive Director's report to PCB-36
03 July 2015
2015 finds us at a true turning point in development—how it is debated and how it is practiced. In September, UN member states are expected to adopt one of the most ambitious agendas in history—the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—which will guide social, economic and environmental action over the next 15 years. The world will begin reaping the benefits of a momentous shift towards society-wide, people-centred approaches to health, climate and social equity.
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Reviewing progress made in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPFA), 20 years after its adoption at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995
20 March 2015
This statement is on behalf of the Secretariat and the cosponsors of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). We appreciate the opportunity to discuss how action to address HIV, including through work responding to the Millennium Development Goals, has helped to ‘advance the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere in the interest of all humanity’ as outlined in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and its reviews, and further elaborated in the 1994 ICPD and its subsequent reviews – as well as how this progress can be accelerated and scaled up before the end of the MDGs and in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Executive Director's Report - Down to the details: Fast-Tracking the response to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030
11 December 2014
My friends, we must continue to collectively reflect on how we can become more fit for purpose for the post-2015 transformative agenda—both at UNAIDS and in the United Nations system as a whole. We discussed this at the Chief Executives Board and agreed that a United Nations system that can deliver on the post-2015 agenda must effectively meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. These challenges are diverse and complex and demand the effective coordination of government, civil society, the private sector, academia and others. UNAIDS is uniquely placed to bring together all actors.
