Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

Urges the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and other relevant organizations and bodies of the UN System to intensify their support to Governments, with a view to achieving the goals contained in the UN Millennium Declaration and the goals and targets contained in the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, the 2005 World Summit Outcome and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS; commends the support provided by the Joint Programme to the process of achieving universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010, in particular the assistance to countries in setting their national targets for universal access; emphasizes the importance of comprehensive, evidence-informed HIV prevention programmes as an essential element of national, regional and international responses, through which actions and policies are tailored to the local profile of the epidemic, and commits to further intensifying efforts in this regard; urges Governments to prioritize and expand access to the prevention and treatment of HIV-related opportunistic infections, to promote access to and the effective use of safe and effective antiretroviral drugs of assured quality, at affordable prices, and to support both biomedical and socio-economic research on new products to prevent HIV infection, including those controlled by women, diagnostics, medicines and other treatment commodities and technologies related to HIV; urges Governments, donors and other stakeholders, including the Joint Programme, to promote coherence in the support provided to and the alignment with national HIV/AIDS response strategies in a transparent, accountable and effective manner within the framework of the "Three Ones" principles.

Adopted without vote, 36th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2009 (Geneva, 6-31 July 2009) - E/2009/INF/2/Add.1 - 21 Aug. 2009 - p. 27-32.