This brief provides guidance for countries developing and implementing comprehensive virtual intervention services. It is complementary to a more detailed guide on planning and budgeting.

This framework provides insights into some of these questions. It categorises
existing research, knowledge and best practices and outlines the necessary
building blocks for planning, implementing, and monitoring improvement in the
HIV response among men and boys within a broader gender equality framework.
The framework is an evidence-based action road map to guide the development
of national strategies; when contextualized to local and national contexts and
epidemiological situations, the framework provides a foundation for country-led
movements to achieve the globally agreed HIV goals in the Global AIDS Strategy
2021–2026 and work towards achieving gender equality.

Universal health coverage is guided by the principle that individuals and communities receive the services they need, including essential good-quality health services, without suffering financing hardship. The establishment or expansion of government-sponsored health insurance is often promoted as the main vehicle to finance universal health coverage. For people living with HIV and people from key populations (sex workers, gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who inject drugs, people in prison) living with or at risk of HIV, universal health coverage is considered a health-for-all solution for countries to integrate all HIV services, including prevention.

On Zero Discrimination Day this year, UNAIDS is highlighting the urgent need to take action against discriminatory laws. In many countries, laws result in people being treated differently, excluded from essential services or being subject to undue restrictions on how they live their lives, simply because of who they are, what they do or who they love. Such laws are discriminatory—they deny human rights and fundamental freedoms.

The United Nations General Assembly’s 2021 Political Declaration on AIDS features bold global commitments and targets for 2025 that are ambitious but achievable if countries and communities follow the evidence-informed guidance within the Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026. This UNAIDS publication provides a summary of those commitments and targets to get every country and every community on-track to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.