This roundtable is held as governments prepare for the High-Level Meeting (HLM) on HIV and AIDS on 8-10th June 2021, which will review the progress made in reducing the impact of HIV since the last HLM on HIV and AIDS in 2016 and adopt a new political declaration to guide the future direction of the response. It is co-hosted by GNP+, NCD Alliance, and Global Health Council

The high-level meeting will review the progress made in reducing the impact of HIV since the last United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS in 2016 and the General Assembly expects to adopt a new political declaration to guide the future direction of the response.

World AIDs Day takes place on 1 December each year, to show support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness.

It is time to end the siloed and vertical response to AIDS, and to “make common cause with the global health field”, says a new report by the International AIDS Society (IAS)–Lancet Commission.