One important way to mobilise more resources and achieve a greater programmatic impact is by harnessing the full range of assets, capacities and innovations business has to offer – whether they be financial, technical or institutional.

States have a moral and legal obligation—under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human rights treaties, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other international obligations—to remove discriminatory laws and to enact laws that protect people from discrimination.

The UNAIDS/ World Health Organization (WHO) meeting, Shaping oral PrEP modelling for high-burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa, was held in Geneva in June 2018. Meeting participants represented a broad range of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) stakeholders. They considered the model outputs required to advance PrEP programmes, the data and assumptions used in models, and decision-making around “reasonable use” of resources for PrEP. The principles covered in these discussions can apply to other biomedical HIV prevention tools.

Without addressing HIV-related stigma and discrimination, the world will not achieve the goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Related: Operational guidance with checklist for tracking progress at country level. This document is also available in Portuguese.

This edition of UNAIDS data shows the results of some of those successes, but also the challenges that remain. It contains the very latest data on the world’s response to HIV, consolidating a small part of the huge volume of data collected, analysed and refined by UNAIDS over the years. The full data set of information for 1990 to 2018 is available on aidsinfo.unaids.org.

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