The United Kingdom welcomes this High-Level Meeting and its political declaration.<\/p>\n
The UK is proud to have contributed to the significant progress the world has made in tackling HIV over the past decades, reducing transmissions by 65% since 1995 and deaths by 74% since 2004.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This progress is particularly significant amongst children, where there has been a 69% reduction in transmissions since 2010.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Each of these numbers affects lives, people, and futures made possible brining hope to us all.<\/p>\n
This hope continues today, with new, innovative long-acting antiretroviral technologies also offering transformative potential, improving adherence, reducing stigma, and expanding HIV services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The UK continues to support key partners in this work, including the Global Fund, World Health Organisation, Unitaid, and UNAIDS.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We also recognise the important roles that UNDP, UNICEF, and UNFPA play in delivering the response on the ground.<\/p>\n
But we are concerned about this progress reversing if we do not refocus our effort to end AIDS and ensure no one is left behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is particularly critical for key populations and for women and girls.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Engagement, inclusion, and partnership with these groups and others at the grassroots of the HIV response remains essential.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Three things will be particularly important.\u00a0<\/p>\n
First, we need to continue to work together, including across the UN, to strengthen health systems, prevent new infections, and end AIDS-related deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Second, we need stronger country-led, sustainable responses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
National leadership, integrated services, and efficient use of resources will be critical.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And third, community-led organisations must remain at the heart of the response.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their leadership, resilience, and expertise are essential to reach those most in need and sustain long-term progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Innovation and evidence will continue to underpin successful partnerships, working with key populations, addressing structural barriers created by stigma and discrimination, and tackling drivers of new transmissions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
So colleagues, we must act with urgency to refocus our resources where they will have the greatest impact, and remain steadfast in our shared commitment to ending AIDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Kingdom welcomes this High-Level Meeting and its political declaration. The UK is proud to have contributed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}